Carl Edlund v. Larry G. Massanari, Acting Commissioner of Social Security

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a “lack of supporting clinical or laboratory findings” constitutes a specific and legitimate reason for discrediting a treating physician’s opinion
• holding that evidence that the claimant 10 exaggerated physical pain complaints to receive prescription narcotics provided 11 clear and convincing reason to discredit the claimant’s subjective allegations
• holding that the ALJ failed to provide substantial evidence for rejecting a psychologist’s examination report where, inter alia, the ALJ “selectively focused on aspects of [the] report which tend[ed] to suggest non-disability”
• holding that 19 evidence of drug seeking behavior undermines a claimant’s reported symptoms
• holding that 14 evidence of drug seeking behavior undermines a claimant’s reported symptoms
• holding that 15 evidence of drug seeking behavior undermines a claimant’s reported symptoms

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