Brooks

Brooks v. Kijakazi

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United States District Court, Northern District of CaliforniaFebruary 13, 20251:23-cv-05512California5,984 words

Opinion

Trial Court Opinion

I. Background

22 Plaintiff was raised in foster care, where he suffered physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. 23 24 1 Pursuant to the recommendation of the Committee on Court Administration and Case 25 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 ten attachments to Docket Entry #13. See Dkts. 13-1 through 13-10. 27 AR at 68. This past trauma still causes Plaintiff “nightmares and flashbacks[.]” Id. at 813. Plaintiff took special education classes in school and described himself as a “slow learner[.]” Id. at 68.4 Plaintiff was incarcerated for much of the relevant time period. See AR at 68 (November 2018 arrest for residential burglary), id. at 69 (July 2019 arrest for second-degree burglary). As a result, the medical evidence consists almost entirely of treatment notes from jail and prison medical service providers. Some of those notes reflect earlier medical records that are not part of 7 the record before the court. One treatment provider summarized them as follows: “[B]etween 8 2009 and 2016…

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