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Molina v. Astrue

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Superseded by statute
Court
Ninth Circuit
Citation
674 F.3d 1104
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
430 of 430
Citing cases (total)
430
Treatment dates
2022
Superseded by statute
A reviewed court treats this case as superseded by later legislation. A district court held that the 2017 Social Security regulations displaced Molina v. Astrue's germane-reasons requirement for rejecting lay witness testimony in later-filed claims. The court continued to apply Molina's harmless-error rule.
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430 later cases cite Molina v. Astrue; 430 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Superseded by statute or regulation

  • For claims filed after March 27, 2017, the regulations require an ALJ to consider lay witness testimony but do not require germane reasons for rejecting it.

    Schilling v. Commissioner of Social Security · E.D. Cal. · filed

    ... see also Molina, 674 F.3d at 1111. In giving ... “germane reasons” for disregarding a lay witness’s testimony ... Similarly, the “germane reasons” standard at issue in the instant case pre-dates the revised ... regulations and is likely superseded by the 2017 regulatory framework ... Thus, the new regulations do not support a ... requirement that the ALJ articulate “germane reasons” for rejecting lay witness testimony, but ... only a requirement that the lay testimony was “considered.”
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