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Parties Involved:
Commissioner of Social Security
Appellee
Tina Hull
Appellant

Document Text:

NOT RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION

File Name: 15a0086n.06

No. 14-1154

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT

TINA HULL

Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY

Defendant-Appellee.

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ON APPEAL FROM THE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT 

COURT FOR THE EASTERN 

DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN

Before: BATCHELDER and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges; COLLIER, District Judge.*

CURTIS L. COLLIER, District Judge. Appellant Tina Hull (“Hull”) appeals the district 

court’s order accepting the Report and Recommendation of the magistrate judge and dismissing 

the action in favor of the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

Hull suffers from a variety of medical issues and, as a result of those ailments, sought 

disabled status. After considering the evidence, the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) assessed 

Hull’s residual functional capacity (“RFC”) and testimony from the vocational expert and found 

that Hull did not meet the criteria for disabled status. Hull argues that the ALJ failed to account 

for her difficulties in concentration in both the RFC and the hypothetical question posed to the 

vocational expert. She also argues that the ALJ’s assessment failed to account for the 

 

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The Honorable Curtis L. Collier, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 

Tennessee, sitting by designation.

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compounding effects that her obesity had on her other ailments. Finally, she argues that the ALJ 

improperly evaluated her credibility.

After reviewing the briefs, we AFFIRM for the reasons stated by the court below. See 

Hull v. Comm’r of Soc. Sec., No. 12-14385 (E.D. Mich. Dec. 19, 2013).

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