United States Ninth Circuit

An administrative law judge may not rely on Medical-Vocational Guidelines grids to determine if disability applicant can work another job if the applicant's purported impairment is not physical.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/15/2001
• Decided 04/17/2001
• Published 04/17/2001

Judges

• Before:  B. FLETCHER, FERNANDEZ, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Phyllis A. Matyi, Larkspur, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General, Robert S. Mueller, III, United States Attorney, Janice L. Walli, Chief Counsel, Region IX, Jeffrey H. Baird, Assistant Regional Counsel, Social Security Administration, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellee.