United States Ninth Circuit

The district court properly affirmed defendant-Commissioner's denial of plaintiff's application for supplemental security income benefits under the Social Security Act, where: 1) plaintiff was required to demonstrate that he medically equaled each of the individual criteria under Listing 12.05C; and 2) he failed to do so, even though he argued that he equals the listed impairment for intellectual disability because his physical impairments are so severe that they compensate for the one point difference between his recorded IQ score and the score required under the listing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/31/2013
• Published 12/31/2013

Judges

• FISHER

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel