Garcia

I. Background

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25 1 Pursuant to the recommendation of the Committee on Court Administration and Case Management of the Judicial Conference of the United States, Plaintiff's name is partially redacted. 26

2 The Administrative Record (“AR”), which is independently paginated, has been filed in NINE 27 attachments to Docket Entry #14. See Docs. 14-1 through 14-9. 1 Plaintiff Antonio G. was born in Mexico and immigrated to the U.S. at 4 years old. AR at 2 631. Plaintiff would later describe his childhood as “pretty rough[.]” Id. Plaintiff’s father was an 3 alcoholic who physically abused Plaintiff’s mother; Plaintiff also experienced emotional abuse as 4 a child. Id., id. at 699. Plaintiff began working at age 6 and started drinking at age 13. Id. at 465, 5 781. By age 21, Plaintiff had become a problem drinker. Id. at 465. 6 Beginning in 2000, while on active duty in the U.S. Marines, Plaintiff experienced a series 7 of traumatic events. AR at 628. While Plaintiff was deployed to Japan, his wife was raped and 8 gave the couple’s daughter up for adoption. Id. Plaintiff also saw the dead bodies of two fellow 9 servicemen who had…