The Four medical professionals blackballed by ALJ Dan R. Hyatt
because they "might" find a claimant disabled. 

After Ph.D. Burns was told that he had been "blackballed" by Hyatt because he "finds claimants disabled", Dr. Burns wrote this letter to point out that on average he finds more claimants NOT DISABLED than disabled.  
Apparently, Dan Hyatt wants a consultative examiner to ONLY find that claimants are not disabled.  
Dan R. Hyatt blackballs psychologists who might find a claimant disabled from doing an examination for Social Security. click here
Read Dr. Burn's defense of his profession and himself, BELOW.

actual Order from ALJ Dan R. Hyatt blackballing

This standard order from ALJ Dan R. Hyatt was received by Oregon State Bar Reporter anonymously but it comports with the several identical orders that a reporter for Oregon State Bar Reporter has seen and handled.

Other

Caleb Burns statement after learning that he was being blackballed by ALJ Dan R. Hyatt

OCCUPATION: Clinical Psychologist

OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND: Psychologist, Portland-Gresham, 1987 to present.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.A., Claremont Men's College, 1972; Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Hawaii, 1984.

Dear Attorney Daniel A. Bernath:

I have been told by a variety of agency representatives that they prefer my reports to others, and WOU has said my reports are unsurpassed in terms of background information, activities of daily living, and other important factors they consider. WOU has also said that my report information helps with setting the record for Social Security considerations and they have encouraged me to continue to be complete in my reports.
 

I sent out feedback letters fairly often to referral sources to ask how my reports meet their needs and the comments have been uniformly positive.

My reports are considerably longer than the average report but I endeavor to include all important relevant information. As an ethical psychologist, I can do no less.  For example, if I am asked to comment on the cognitive functioning on an individual, then unless I have performed at least some simple screening (perhaps the Reading subtest of the WRAT-3, or several subtests of the WAIS-III) I will not conclude that the person is presenting without cognitive impairment.  To do so would be to reach a conclusion not based on data and that certainly could result in mistreatment of the claimant.  (It is often the case that impaired people present superficially as very intact.  Similarly, people who may present as impaired are oftentimes quite high-functioning.)

Though continued education, reading, and ongoing consultation with others, I keep current on the important matters related to my specialty.  (For example, last Friday I attended a seminar on diagnosing via the DSM-IV-TR and on Saturday I attended a conference on brain injury hosted by the Brain Injury Association of Oregon.)

I noted to you that I had performed previously an examination of a number of claimants to determine how many of them I had found disabled.

As a result of a phone inquiry, on May 25, 1999, I examined on my computer all of the reports that I had written since January 1999 in which my views regarding disability from work was asked of me.  As of May 25, there were 147 reports, these performed for Disability Services of Oregon, AFS.  Of those, 68 led me to state that the claimant was disabled for 12 months because of psychological problems and 79 were found by me to be not disabled from a psychological perspective,.

Therefore, the total rate at which I found people to be disabled from this population for that five month period was 46 percent or less than half.

Further, I examined the rate at which I found people to have a GAF scale of 49 or lower and a review of my reports over the five months ending May 25, 1999 showed that I have found 68 people to have GAF's 49 or lower and 76 to have GAF's above 49.  (I was unable to estimate GAF's on several claimants.)  Therefore, 53 percent of the claimants for whom I could determine a GAF had GAFs of 50 or higher. This is more than half of those who were sent to me for an evaluation.

So in general summary, more than half of those evaluated by me that five month period (and I have reason to think that that five month period was nonrepresentative of my usual evaluation outcomes) were not found to be disabled by me, and more than half of that group of claimants had GAF scores of 50 or higher.

I certainly subscribe to the ethical guidelines of my profession and am motivate to do the very best that I can in terms of providing accurate an complete evaluations of those clients sent to me.  I very often seek corollary information from family members and others, seek the input of physicians and others, etc.  Further, I often make home visits or see claimants in a wide variety of locates outside my office.

I close each report with the following general words: "Thank you for this very interesting evaluation.  If you have any questions or comments (or if you have any information which may cause me to modify my diagnoses of this client), please do not hesitate to contact me."  I mean that paragraph fully and am please3d when people do contact me with additional information, some of which certainly can change my diagnostic impressions.

Feel free to share this information with whomever you wish. 

I certainly would be willing to discuss this matters more completely in any venue at all.  Just set the time and place and I will be happy to attend. 

(I am a proponent of the view that exposure is the best antiseptic).

Yours,

Caleb Burns, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist

Dan R.Hyatt
is a member of the Oregon Bar. 
He must be a member of the bar to be eligible to be an administrative law judge. 
He currently is employed by the Social Security Administration as an administrative law judge out of the Portland Oregon ODAR.

Official Documents--Dan Hyatt takes "government property, has a problem with interracial couples", exposes secret social security numbers to strangers of claimants, calls an attorney "an asshole", calls another attorney "a moron", Dan Hyatt is a "bald faced liar", misrepresents that he is a US District Court judge, uses intimidation, anger and verbal abuse against helpless Social Security disabled claimants, threatens disabled US veteran with assault, say privileged documents.

The following are complaints to the Oregon State Bar
or other privileged documents:

• Administrative Law Judge Dan R. Hyatt calls claimant "White Trash" tells black and white couple that he has "a problem with interracial marriage."  Eventually another judge hears the case and they are granted Social Security Disability click here

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•  Request for investigation as to why ALJ Dan Hyatt insists on holding hearings in inconvenient location in State of Washington after report that he was doing it for his own "tax reasons." click here
  
  
  
  
   

• Social Security agrees to fine itself $1,500 because of the vexatious, wanton and oppressive conduct of Dan Hyatt.
  Dan Hyatt has an "anti-claimant" standard if an attorney is an effective attorney as Dan Hyatt demands only "docile counsel", Dan Hyatt calls Social Security lawyer an "asshole."  click here

• Complaint about Dan R. Hyatt's alleged criminal coercion against editor of Oregon State Bar Reporter to get him to take down this webpage and all over public documents of Dan R. Hyatt click here

• Complaint to Oregon State Bar~ Re: Probable cause to investigate Administrative Law Judge Dan Hyatt’s (Oregon Bar Member: 782524) possible involvement in transport of stolen federal property across state lines and breach and broadcast of citizen’s Social Security number and other confidential and private information click here
   

• Chief Administrative Law Judge of the United States, scolds Oregon State Bar for receiving and hanging onto stolen social security number from ALJ Dan Hyatt
  Private Social Security number revealed by ALJ Dan Hyatt to the public "property of Social Security" and its ended up at Oregon Bar violates the law
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• Complaint to Oregon State Bar-damage to thousands  if Dan Hyatt is acting recklessly and has the secrets of thousands of helpless people in Oregon and Washington State.   click here
   

• Social Security number of attorney goes missing in office where Dan Hyatt works click here
   

• Demand that Administrative Law Judge Dan Hyatt be suspended pending results of investigation of theft of government property and compromising of private social security numbers click here
   

• Demand that Oregon State Bar surrender stolen property to victim of Social Security employee who revealed his personal medical information and social security number.  Receiving/possession stolen property is a crime click here
   

• Administrative Law Judge Dan Hyatt cooks the evidence to blackball consultative examiners who find that claimants are disabled; stops claimant's lawyer from asking questions at hearings click here
  Hyatt blackballs some of the finest psychiatrists in two states because they sometimes find claimants "disabled" click here
   

• ^{Dan Hyatt is misrepresenting that he is a United States District Court Judge says complaint to Oregon State Bar click here}
   

• ^{This has been going on since he first became a administrative law judge 11 years ago:}

  ^{Dan Hyatt lies, Dan Hyatt is biased against certain claimants, takes out revenge against lawyer who aggressively represented Social Security clients, after waiting 3 years for a Social Security hearing, claimants face;}

   

  • intimidation,

  • anger,

  • and other vituperative behavior (containing or characterized by verbal abuse)

  • refusal to hear evidence,

  • cancellation of hearings with no opportunity to develop a record on appeal,

  • ex parte (without their attorney present) contact with claimants, and

  • foreclosure of cross-examination.

  ^{according to lawsuit against ALJ Dan Hyatt click here}
   

•  Administrative Law Judge Dan Hyatt calls private attorney for claimant a "moron" and a liar.  Hyatt is proven to be wrong on all counts. Threatens to have disabled veteran of Vietnam War "thrown out" of hearing because he was moving too slowly after hearing cancelled by ALJ Dan Hyatt click here
  
   

• Dan Hyatt treats disabled United States Navy veteran shamefully.  Threatens to have 300 pound (plus) guard "throw out" disabled veteran.  click here
   

• Dan Hyatt ignores the law and lies in an order. click here
   

• Dan Hyatt misrepresents and commits fraud by implying he is a United States District Court Judge, nominated by the President and confirmed by the US Senate when he is not;
   

• Dan Hyatt admonished by Social Security Administration for acting "unprofessionally",
   

• Dan Hyatt is a "poor historian", said another way, Dan Hyatt is a liar,

• Dan Hyatt attempts to overburden attorneys who practice in his Social Security room so that claimants will either decide not to hire an attorney (and lose) or so he can act as an admin judge in front of only docile and ineffective lawyers click here
   

• Attorney David Lowry quoted by US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal (one level below US Supreme Court) saying that Dan Hyatt is a bald faced liar click here

• Dan Hyatt "a bald faced liar" since 1998 to 2008!  Ten Years a Liar, complaint to Oregon State Bar, "Unfitness of Dan R. Hyatt (Bar Number 782524)to be a member of the Oregon Bar Multiple violations of Rule 8.4 (3) dishonest, fraudulent, deceitful conduct, etc. click here

• Dan Hyatt betrays his oath to support the laws of the United States as he creates his own laws and becomes judge/jury/executioner

• Dan Hyatt lies, tells such a big lie, such an obvious lie,  that it will take your breath away

• Dan Hyatt demands that Shaking Social Security claimant breach confidential attorney-client communication click here
   

• Dan Hyatt stops hearing of claimant who has been waiting for 8 years for disability benefits because claimant's attorney 'objected' to Dan Hyatt misstating the testimony and asking a leading question.  click here

• Because of Dan Hyatt's lies and cruelty, a social security claimant is forced to beg for food click here

• Because of Dan Hyatt's betrayal of a claimant's social security number, steps are taken to protect his him identity theft so that his future social security benefits are not denied him when an illegal alien uses his stolen social security number click here

• Dan Hyatt lies repeatedly to investigator as the Oregon State Bar investigates his alleged unethical conduct click here

• Model Motion so that you can disqualify Dan Hyatt from hearing your case click here

• Judge Dan Hyatt admits extra judicial bias-if you don't have a lawyer, he will rule against you click here

• Dan Hyatt admits that he will rule against a Social Security claimant if his lawyer is "an asshole" click here

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