United States Ninth Circuit

Decision denying plaintiff disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act is reversed where the administrative law judge improperly found petitioner to be not disabled at the second step of the evaluative process, and substantial evidence did not support the finding that plaintiff's impairments were not medically severe.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/29/2005
• Published 12/29/2005

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge:, Before: FISHER, GOULD and BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Linda S. Ziskin, Lake Oswego, OR, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David M. Blume, Office of the General Counsel, Social Security Administration, Seattle, WA, for the defendant-appellee.