Philip R. Lammens
How Judge Lammens decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Revised post-2017 SSA medical-opinion regulations (20 C.F.R. 416.920c / 404.1520c): the ALJ no longer owes any deference to a treating source's opinion; a check-box medical source statement (here, extreme sit/stand/off-task/absence limitations) can properly be found not persuasive where it is contradicted by the consultative examiner, by the source's OWN treatment notes, and by the objective exam findings. Re-arguing the treating opinion is improperly asking the court to reweigh evidence under deferential substantial-evidence review.
“Under the revised regulations, the ALJ was not required to give deference to the opinion. ... substantial evidence supports the ALJ's decision to give greater credit to the opinion of the consultative examiner and the largely unremarkable findings in the treatment notes.”
Subjective-symptom evaluation: an ALJ who gives 'explicit and adequate reasons' to discount a claimant's testimony will be affirmed; the ALJ need not march through every 20 C.F.R. 404.1529(c)(3) factor and may properly weigh a claimant's continued part-time work (here 20 hrs/week) as an activity of daily living bearing on credibility.
“the ALJ had explicit and adequate reasons to reject Plaintiff's allegations regarding her symptoms and limitations. ... expressly discussing each of the factors is not necessary.”
A class-of-one equal-protection claim needs concrete facts showing genuinely similar comparators; general assertions that unspecified others received better treatment are not enough. Municipal-liability allegations likewise must connect an identified policy or custom to the asserted constitutional injury.
“Here, Plaintiffs’ speculative and vague allegations that they were treated differently from other unspecified parties fails to state an equal protection claim.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“For the reasons stated above, the ALJ'S decision is AFFIRMED under sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g). The Clerk is directed to enter judgment accordingly, terminate any pending motions, and close the file.”
“Accordingly, Defendants’ motion to dismiss (Doc. 15) is GRANTED and Counts V-VIII are dismissed with leave to amend within 20 days if Plaintiffs can do so in good faith.”
“Based on Plaintiffs’ agreement, Count VIII which seeks injunctive relief is dismissed and all demands for punitive damages are stricken.”
“Upon due consideration, Plaintiffs’ motion for reconsideration (Doc. 34) is GRANTED to the extent that this matter is REMANDED to the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court, in and for Lake County, Florida.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The reviewed civil docket is dominated by consent Social Security appeals, with a smaller number of attorney-fee and other consent-civil matters. It provides descriptive context rather than a complete census, and no authoritative case-disposition baseline was available for the period.
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