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172737P.pdf 08/01/2018 John Higgins v. Commissioner, Social Security
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 17-2737
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Wollman and Loken, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Social Security. ALJs may properly rely on Vocational Expert
testimony that a certain needed modification is part of the functional
workplace, and it makes no difference that a particular workplace
modification, in claimant's case, a bariatric chair, might be called an
accommodation or a reasonable accommodation; what matters is that the
particular modification has become prevalent and is commonly offered -
whether required by the ADA or not; here, the Vocational Expert presented
evidence that providing such a chair is a common accommodation, and the
ALJ could rely on that evidence in finding jobs existed in the national
economy that claimant could adjust to and perform.