Taylor v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration

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• recognizing that an ALJ must 25 “provide specific, germane reasons for discounting lay witness testimony”
• holding that an ALJ may not substitute his layperson personal observations of claimant for the opinions of claimant’s treating physicians
• recognizing that an ALJ must 22 || “provide specific, germane reasons for discounting lay witness testimony”
• holding that a claimant does not “need to be utterly incapacitated in order to be 6 disabled” (internal citations and quotation marks omitted)
• holding that a reviewing court may review additional evidence submitted to 8 LUTHER V. BERRYHILL and rejected by the Appeals Council, but may not review an Appeals Council decision denying a request for review
• finding that medical evaluations made after the relevant time period are relevant where they concern the claimant’s condition during the time period at issue

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