Muirhead v. Mecham

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• finding that a district court must uphold an 2 RFC assessment when the ALJ has applied the proper legal standard and substantial 3 evidence in the record as a whole supports the decision
• finding ALJ’s failure to expressly address 2 medication side effects is not error where there was no record support for side effects
• collecting cases illustrating that “parents’ liberty interest in the 1 custody, care, and nurture of their children” is not exclusive and frequently gives way to 2 state regulation in educational settings
• “[T]he Declaratory Judgment Act . . . plainly does not operate as an express waiver of sovereign immunity.”
• ALJ may reject opinion due to discrepancy or contradiction between 18 opinion and physician’s own notes or observations
• “Inconsistency with medical evidence” is a germane reason for discounting lay witness 24 testimony

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