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· 12/24/1996

Silvestre Chavez v. Department of Health and Human Services

Citations

  • 103 F.3d 849
  • 96 Daily Journal DAR 15426
  • 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 9364
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 33458
  • 1996 WL 734051

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that social security rulings “are interpretive rulings and do not have the force of law”
  • “[F]or the purposes of these regulations, only literacy in English is considered, since literacy in other languages has little effect on the number of jobs in the national economy available to the claimant.”

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Judges: Goodwin, Wallace, Rymer

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