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032813P.pdf   05/13/2004  Talat E. Sultan  v.  Jo Anne B. Barnhart
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  03-2813
   Southern District of Iowa   
   Civil case - Social Security. ALJ did not err in refusing to give 
   controlling weight to claimant's treating clinicians' opinions as to his 
   functional capacity, as those opinions were not supported by the other 
   evidence in the case, including claimant's own testimony; no error in 
   evaluating or weighing nonexamining state agency consultants' reports; 
   ALJ's finding concerning claimant's mental residual functional capacity 
   was supported by substantial evidence; question posed to the vocational 
   expert was properly phrased. 
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author]