United States Ninth Circuit

Reversing an order affirming the denial of disability benefits by the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration and remanding for the calculation and award of benefits to a morbidly obese former security guard who suffered from a wide range of relatively minor illnesses where the court improperly rejected the medical opinion of her treating physician and erroneously discounted her testimony relating to symptoms.

Appellate Information

• Published 2017/07/10

Judges

• WARDLAW

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel