Silva Tonapetyan v. William A. Halter, Commissioner of Social Security Administration

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• recognizing that a non-examiner’s opinion may amount to substantial evidence “when it is consistent with other independent evidence in the record”
• holding that if the ALJ properly discounts a 25 claimant’s credibility, then medical opinions premised on the claimant’s subjective complaints may 26 be disregarded
• concluding that the ALJ properly discredited claimant testimony based on medical evidence that the claimant exaggerated their symptoms
• holding that an examining physician’s opinion 5 was substantial evidence for rejecting a treating physician’s opinion because it was based 6 on an independent examination
• recognizing that a “tendency to exaggerate” is a 19 “specific and convincing reason” for discrediting a claimant’s testimony
• holding that examining physician’s 22 “opinion alone constitutes substantial evidence, because it rests on his own 23 independent examination of [claimant]”

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