David PERMINTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that an ALJ’s personal observation that a claimant did not exhibit pain 13 at a hearing does not support denial of benefits where objective evidence supports 14 claimant’s claims
• noting that an “ALJ's reliance on [her] 17 personal observations of [the claimant] at the hearing has been condemned as ‘sit and squirm’ 18 jurisprudence”
• noting that an “ALJ's reliance on [her] personal observations of [the claimant] at 18 the hearing has been condemned as ‘sit and squirm’ jurisprudence”
• condemning an ALJ’s reliance of a claimant at a 19 hearing as “‘sit and squirm’ jurisprudence”
• “The ALJ’s reliance on his personal observations of [plaintiff] at the 2 hearing has been condemned as ‘sit and squirm’ jurisprudence.”
• “The ALJ’s reliance on 6 his personal observations . . . at the hearing has been condemned as ‘sit and squirm’ 7 jurisprudence.”

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