Lawrence E. Bruton v. Larry G. Massanari, Acting Commissioner of Social Security

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• holding that an ALJ 25 properly discounted a claimant’s credibility after finding that he stopped working 26 not because of disability, but because he had been laid off
• holding that the ALJ did not err in discounting 17 claimant’s testimony based on his report that he stopped working because he was laid off rather 18 than because he was injured
• holding that the ALJ properly disregarded Plaintiff’s symptom 13 testimony when one reason for doing so was that Plaintiff “left his job because he 14 was laid off, rather than because he was injured”
• concluding that a subsequent award of benefits was not inconsistent with a prior denial of the claimant’s initial application where the second application involved different medical evidence, a different time period, and a different age classification
• stating that the claimant’s limited range of motion in his arms “may be considered an non-exertional limitation”
• holding ALJ did not err in rejecting plaintiff’s testimony where the layoff was unrelated to pain allegations

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