U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Michelle Valent v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Panel
The judges who heard this appeal.
- Senior Judge Ronald Lee Gilman
- Judge Raymond M. Kethledge
Case history
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March 20, 2019decided Decision issued in Michelle Valent v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Opinions and writings
RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit I.O.P. 32.1(b) File Name: 19a0048p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT MICHELLE VALENT, ┐ Petitioner, │ │…
RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge. The Commissioner of Social Security imposed an assessment of $51,410 and a civil monetary penalty of $75,000 on petitioner Michelle Valent after the Social Security Administration found that Valent failed to disclose that she had engaged in paid work activity while receiving Social Security disability benefits. Valent argues that…
KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge, dissenting. DISSENT In every case where an Article III court defers to the Executive's interpretation of a statute under Chevron , our constitutional separation of powers is surely disordered. That disorder, the Supreme Court has said, is constitutionally permissible. But it is disorder nonetheless. For whenever a federal court declares a statute ambiguous and the…