Jeanne Connett v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner, Commissioner of Social Security

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• holding that ALJ properly rejected doctor’s opinion where 15 “treatment notes provide[d] no basis for the functional restrictions [physician] opined”
• holding that it was error for district court to affirm credibility determination based on evidence the ALJ did not discuss
• holding that it is “error . . . to affirm the ALJ’s credibility decision based on evidence that the ALJ did not discuss”
• holding that courts “are 20 constrained to review the reasons the ALJ asserts” and “cannot rely on independent findings” to affirm the ALJ’s decision
• holding that ALJ properly rejected 10 physician’s conclusions that were not supported by physician’s own treatment 11 notes
• concluding that 26 discrepancies between plaintiff's testimony and the objective medical record was a clear 27 and convincing reason to reject plaintiff's testimony

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