MACHIA v. Astrue

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he Commissioner is not generally free to completely disregard a VA disability rating.”
• “In the Second Circuit, the VA's determination of disability is generally entitled to ‘some weight,’ though it is not dispositive on the issue of whether a claimant is disabled for the purpose of Social Security benefits.”
• “The point of the Second Circuit’s admonition to accord VA determinations ‘some weight’ is that in addition to the oral testimony and medical evidence, VA rating decisions are another item to be placed on the evidentiary scale.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).