United States Ninth Circuit

In finding that a Social Security Disability Insurance claimant was not mentally disabled, the Administrative Law Judge misapplied 20 C.F.R. section 404.1502, the regulation addressing the definition of "treating source."

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/08/2003
• Decided 06/09/2003
• Published 06/09/2003

Judges

• Before:  B. FLETCHER, SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges, and MARTONE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas Garrett Roche, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John C. Cusker, Assistant Regional Counsel, Social Security Administration, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellee.