Court Opinion

ID: 9466962
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 01:34:03.135524+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:40:04.361165
License: Public Domain

TAMM, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I join in Judge Green’s fine opinion for the court. It correctly points to several errors and omissions that the administrative law judge committed in analyzing Mr. Diabo’s case. I am satisfied that the cumulative effect of these mistakes was to deprive Mr. Diabo of the full and fair hearing to which he is entitled. Remand, therefore, is necessary to give proper consideration to evidence either not admitted or not sought *284by the administrative law judge in the first proceeding.
I add these remarks only to dispel the impression some might have that our decision today may be broader than it actually is. I do not read the opinion of the court as holding that each of the errors cited, if taken alone, would have been a sufficient ground for remand. Counsel for Mr. Diabo cited no case in this circuit, and I have found none, that has held any one of these factors by itself would require a new proceeding. Given a set of facts that would present a single one of these mistakes in stark relief, we very well might conclude that it alone is enough to justify a remand. As usual, we steer a more prudent course by waiting until each question arises rather than sailing unnecessarily into waters that, at least in this circuit, are as yet uncharted. Because our holding does not go beyond what the facts of this case require, I concur in the opinion of the court.