BIDDLE ON BEHALF OF KMB v. COMMISSIONER SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION (2018)

[Unpublished]

Angela Renee Biddle, on behalf of her minor daughter KMB, appeals from the order of the District Court ¹ affirming the denial of child disability benefits. We conclude that substantial evidence on the record as a whole supports the administrative law judge’s determination that KMB’s severe impairments did not functionally equal a listed impairment. See England v. Astrue, 490 F.3d 1017, 1019–20 (8th Cir. 2007) (setting out the standard of review and summarizing the “sequential three-step evaluation” for a child-disability claim).² We affirm the judgment.

FOOTNOTES

1.   The Honorable Jerome T. Kearney, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, to whom the case was referred for final disposition by consent of the parties, see 28 U.S.C. § 636(c).

2.   We did not consider the issues that Biddle raises for the first time on appeal or has abandoned. See Gragg v. Astrue, 615 F.3d 932, 938 (8th Cir. 2010) (noting that issues not raised in the district court would not be considered on appeal because the appellant had not shown “that manifest injustice would otherwise result”); Hacker v. Barnhart, 459 F.3d 934, 937 n.2 (8th Cir. 2006) (explaining that a party abandons an issue if it is not raised in her appellant brief).

PER CURIAM.