United States Ninth Circuit

Summary judgment for the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration in a challenge to a finding that claimant was no longer disabled for purposes of benefits is affirmed where a particular medical listing requires that a person be rendered unable to work because of staged surgical procedures.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/17/2006
• Decided 08/08/2006
• Published 08/08/2006

Judges

• WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge:, Before: WALLACE, HAWKINS, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark Caldwell, Caldwell & Ober, P.L.L.C., Phoenix, AZ, for plaintiff-appellant William D. Avenetti.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donna M. Montano, Assistant Regional Counsel, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellee.