Shields v. Connecticut

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• holding that absent specific details about a claimant’s daily activities, those activities cannot constitute substantial evidence inconsistent with the opinion of a claimant’s treating physician
• holding that an ALJ’s failure to apply the appropriate factors enumerated in section 404.1527(c) in rejecting the treating physician’s opinion “alone constitutes reversible legal error.”
• holding that the ALJ erred by failing to provide specific details about claimant’s childcare responsibilities in rejecting the treating physician opinion
• recognizing that 13 boilerplate language does not satisfy the specific, clear, and convincing reason 14 standard
• holding that a district court may not affirm an ALJ’s decision that is not supported by 22 substantial evidence or free from legal error
• holding that the ALJ errred by failing to provide specific details about claimant's childcare responsibilities in rejecting the treating physician opinion

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