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Ghanim v. Colvin

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Superseded by statute
Court
Ninth Circuit
Citation
763 F.3d 1154
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
34 of 34
Citing cases (total)
34
Treatment dates
2022
Superseded by statute
A reviewed court treats this case as superseded by later legislation. Ghanim v. Colvin's former standard for weighing treating providers' medical opinions was superseded for claims subject to the 2017 Social Security regulations. All 34 flagged citations have been read.
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In Woods v. Kijakazi, the Ninth Circuit held that those regulations displaced the medical opinion hierarchy and the specific-and-legitimate-reasons standard applied in Ghanim. The confirmed treatment is listed below. Later courts continue to apply Ghanim's separate rules on symptom testimony and reading medical records in context.

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34 later cases cite Ghanim v. Colvin; 34 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Superseded by later regulation

  • The Ninth Circuit held that the 2017 regulations displaced the medical opinion hierarchy and specific-and-legitimate-reasons standard that Ghanim applied to treating providers.

    Woods v. Kijakazi · Ninth Circuit · filed

    As a threshold matter, we must decide whether recent changes to the Social Security Administration’s regulations displace our longstanding case law requiring an ALJ to provide “specific and legitimate” reasons for rejecting an examining doctor’s opinion. We conclude that they do. For claims subject to the new regulations, the former hierarchy of medical opinions—in which we assign presumptive weight based on the extent of the doctor’s relationship with the claimant—no longer applies.
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