Olen v. Colvin

1 Citing case

  1. Blackette v. Colvin

    52 F. Supp. 3d 101 (D. Mass. 2014)   Cited 25 times
    Concluding that substantial evidence supported hearing officer's credibility determination, where hearing officer considered claimant's improvement in response to conservative treatment

    Substantial evidence, in turn, must be “more than a mere scintilla. It means such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind must accept as adequate to support a conclusion.” Olen v. Colvin, No. 12–12424–JLT, 2014 WL 1912357, at *4 (D.Mass. May 7, 2014) (quoting Richardson v. Perales, 402 U.S. 389, 401, 91 S.Ct. 1420, 28 L.Ed.2d 842 (1971) ) (internal quotation marks omitted). The Commissioner, not the Court, is tasked with “determin[ing] issues of credibility and ... draw[ing] inferences from the record evidence.”