United States Ninth Circuit

In order to determine whether a Social Security disability claimant can return to her past work, an administrative law judge must consider both how she actually did her work as well as the regulatory description of the work.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/01/2001
• Published 05/01/2001

Judges

• Before:  FERGUSON, TASHIMA, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ralph Wilborn,Ralph Wilborn and Etta L. Wilborn, P.C., Tucson, Arizona, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donna M. Montano, United States Department of Heath & Human Services, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellee.