United States Ninth Circuit

An administrative law judge may not deny a Social Security applicant a consultative examination based on a belief that available specialists are presumptively unreliable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/30/2001
• Published 10/30/2001

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  KOZINSKI, HAWKINS and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark Caldwell, Phoenix, Arizona, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter O. Okin, United States Department of Justice, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellee.