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151133P.pdf 02/04/2016 Karen Ash v. Carolyn W. Colvin
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-1133
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Jonesboro
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Kelly, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Social Security. The ALJ did not err in finding claimant did
not meet the requirements for mental retardation in Listing 12.05C; the
fact that the ALJ characterized claimant's impairment as mild retardation
at step two of the five-step sequential evaluation process used to
evaluate disability claims did not preclude the ALJ on this record from
finding at step three that claimant did not exhibit deficits in adaptive
functioning and did not, therefore, meet the requirements in the Listing;
as a result, the denial of benefits is affirmed. Judge Kelly, concurring.