WALKER v. SOCIAL SECURITY ADMIN., COMMISSIONER

No. 19-15039.

987 F.3d 1333 (2021)

John Dixon WALKER, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, COMMISSIONER, Commissioner, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 11, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myron K. Allenstein , Allenstein & Allenstein, LLC, Gadsden, AL, Daniel B. King , King & King, PC, Gadsden, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Richard Vincent Blake , Marcus Mauney Johns , Reginald Van Speegle , Social Security Administration, Office of the General Counsel, Atlanta, GA, Elizabeth Holt , U.S. Attorney's Office, Birmingham, AL, U.S. Attorney Service — Northern District of Alabama, Birmingham, AL.

Before WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge, GRANT and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges.


This appeal requires us to decide whether an administrative law judge failed to give proper weight to the opinions of two medical professionals. John Dixon Walker Jr. applied to the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration for disability insurance benefits. A physician and a vocational rehabilitation specialist...

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