Legal Opinion
Bunnell v. Sullivan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 1, 1991No. Nos. 88-4179, 88-4225PublishedCited by 2,141 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge,
joined by TANG, SCHROEDER, FLETCHER, PREGERSON, REINHARDT and BEEZER, Circuit Judges:
INTRODUCTION
We granted a rehearing en banc in Rice v. Sullivan, 912 F.2d 1076 (9th Cir.1990), and Bunnell v. Sullivan, 912 F.2d 1149 (9th Cir.1990), to determine the appropriate standard for evaluating subjective complaints of pain in Social Security disability cases. Bunnell v. Sullivan, 925 F.2d 1236 (9th Cir.1991). We conclude the standard enunciated in Cotton v. Bowen, 799 F.2d 1403, 1407 (9th Cir. 1986), is a proper interpretation of the relevant law, and thus we overrule…
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