Widmark

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

STERLING WIDMARK, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 04-35952 v.  D.C. No.

CV-03-01057-JMS

JO ANNE B. BARNHART,

Commissioner of Social Security, OPINION Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Janice M. Stewart, Magistrate, Presiding

Submitted December 9, 2005* Portland, Oregon

Filed July 26, 2006

Before: James R. Browning, Dorothy W. Nelson, and Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Browning; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge O’Scannlain

*The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

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COUNSEL

Tim Wilborn, West Linn, Oregon, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Karin J. Immergut, United States Attorney, Craig J. Casey, Assistant United States Attorney, Lucille Gonzales Meis, Region X WIDMARK v. BARNHART 8373 Chief Counsel, Stephanie R. Martz, Assistant Regional Coun- sel, Seattle,…