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101092P.pdf   08/29/2011  Patti Beeler  v.  Michael J. Astrue
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-1092
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Bright, Circuit
   Judges]
   Civil case - Social Security. A child conceived through artificial
   insemination more than a year after her father's death did not qualify for
   benefits as the dependent child of a deceased worker; the Commissioner's
   determination that a natural child of the decedent is not entitled to benefits
   unless she has inheritance rights under state law or can satisfy certain
   additional statutory requirements is, at a minimum, reasonable and entitled
   to deference; the child in this case is not entitled to inherit under Iowa
   state law, and the district court's award of benefits is reversed.