Estrada v. California

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Persisting in looking for employment even while claiming to suffer from a painful disability might simply indicate a strong work ethic or overly-optimistic outlook rather than an exaggerated condition.”
• finding that an erroneous credibility determination was not harmless because “it informed several aspects of the ALJ’s findings with respect to [the claimant’s] residual functional capacity and consequently her ability to perform past relevant work or to adjust to other work”
• remanding because the ALJ’s credibility determination “failed to acknowledge and account for those crucial differences” between home and work tasks
• treating doctor's opinion may be properly discounted if it is based upon the claimant's subjective complaints rather than objective medical evidence.
• treating physician’s opinion may be properly discounted if based upon claimant’s subjective complaints rather than objective medical evidence
• finding error when ALJ did not “identify a basis for his conclusion that the life activities [claimant] reported were inconsistent with the physical impairments she claimed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).