Jack FAIR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United States, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that a treating physician’s reliance on a patient’s own discredited subjective complaints is a specific and legitimate reason for discounting the physician’s opinion
• holding that a doctor’s reliance on properly discounted subjective complaints is a specific, legitimate reason
• recognizing that medical 12 evidence predating the period at issue is relevant to considering whether the 13 condition has worsened
• holding that an ALJ can rely 26 on testimony about a claimant’s daily activities “to find a pain allegation incredible”
• holding that “an 10 unexplained, or inadequately explained, failure to seek treatment” can constitute a sufficient 11 reason for discrediting a claimant’s symptom testimony
• holding that a treating physician’s reliance on a patient’s own discredited subjective complaints is a specific and legitimate reason for discounting the physician’s opinion

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