Hilliard v. Saul, No. 19-1169 (8th Cir. 2020)
Annotate this CaseThe Eighth Circuit affirmed the denial for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income to plaintiff. The court held that the ALJ properly weighed the opinions of medical professionals, including a physician's assistant, and gave partial weight to the opinion of a certain medical expert. The court also held that sufficient evidence in the record supported the ALJ's decision, including clinical notes that plaintiff lost weight from moving around so much, left a clinical appointment with a brisk walk and no cane, and stated he was doing well after a total hip replacement. Finally, the court held that a hypothetical question given to the vocational expert captured the concrete consequences of plaintiff's impairments, and the court need not consider plaintiff's Appointments Clause challenge.
Court Description: [Benton, Author, with Colloton and Wollman, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Social Security. The ALJ did not err in weighing the opinions of the medical professionals; sufficient evidence in the record supported the ALJ's decision, including clinical notes on claimant's mobility; the hypothetical question posed to the vocational expert adequately described claimant's cognitive limitations, including the concrete consequences of claimant's impairments; claimant's Appointments Clause challenge was not raised to the ALJ and would not be considered.
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