Patricia Hart v. Larry G. Massanari, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Administration

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a district court is bound by circuit authority and “has no choice but to follow it[.]”
• holding that, contrary to the now-vacated opinion in Anastasoff, the Ninth Circuit Rule about unpublished dispositions not carrying precedential force did not violate the “judicial Power” clause of Article III of the U.S. Constitution
• stating that to determine whether an opinion represents “controlling authority [courts] must parse precedent in light of the facts presented and the rule announced”
• holding that an unpublished “disposition is not written in a way that will be fully intelligible to those unfamiliar with the case, and the rule of law is not announced in a way that makes it suitable for governing future cases”
• discussing that 24 precedent in a Circuit Court of Appeals binds all courts within that particular circuit
• explaining that the “binding authority principle applies only to appellate decisions, and not to trial court decisions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).