Court Opinion

ID: 9487033
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 12:06:44.079865+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:52:04.020843
License: Public Domain

concurring in part and concurring in the judgment:
The only 'question we must decide is whether substantial evidence supports the Secretary of Health and Human Services’s finding that Mickles is not disabled. Hunter v. Sullivan, 993 F.2d 31, 35 (4th Cir.1992) (per curiam) (citing 42 U.S.C. § 405(g); Coffman v. Bowen, 829 F.2d 514, 517 (4th Cir.1987)). Appellant Mickles principally claims that the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”), in making his finding, improperly relied upon a lack of objective medical evidence to discredit her allegations respecting the severity of her pain. Even assuming that appellant is correct, the ALJ properly relied on other evidence, as noted by Judge Hall, that amply supports his decision. For this reason, I concur in part and concur in the judgment.