Jodi F. Jayne
How Judge Jayne decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
On a step-two severity challenge, the judge treats an ALJ's failure to separately evaluate every alleged impairment as harmless as long as the ALJ found at least one severe impairment and proceeded through the full five-step analysis -- but she distinguishes that from a later, independently reversible failure to account for the omitted impairments in the residual-functional-capacity finding.
“Since the ALJ found Plaintiff had at least one severe impairment and proceeded to the subsequent steps of his analysis, any failure in identifying additional medically determinable impairments at step two does not constitute reversible error.”
Procedural preferences
In Social Security appeals, the judge requires the ALJ's residual-functional-capacity narrative to explain what happened to every non-severe impairment, not just the severe ones, especially where there is no consultative examination in the record to fill the gap.
“A clear and specific analysis of what, if any, impact Plaintiff's non-severe physical impairments had on the RFC was particularly important in this case, because there is no physical consultative examination in the record and the medical expert testified that some exertional limitations were 'likely' present.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“For the reasons explained below, the Court AFFIRMS the Commissioner's decision denying benefits.”
“For the foregoing reasons, the Commissioner's decision finding Plaintiff not disabled is REVERSED and REMANDED for proceedings consistent with this Opinion and Order.”
“For reasons explained below, the Court affirms the Commissioner's decision denying benefits.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Jayne's consent docket is dominated by Social Security disability appeals. She also handles recommendations, discovery disputes, and settlement conferences in district judges' civil-rights, prisoner, and criminal cases. The classified outcomes here are limited to dispositive rulings she signed in consent matters.
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