Avenetti
Avenetti v. Social Security Administration
Opinion
Opinion
Wallace COUNSEL, J.
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
WILLIAM D. AVENETTI,
Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 04-15813 v. JOANNE B. BARNHART, D.C. No.
CV-02-01436-MS
Commissioner of the Social
OPINION
Security Administration, Defendant-Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Morton Sitver, Magistrate Judge, Presiding
Argued and Submitted February 17, 2006—San Francisco, California
Filed August 8, 2006
Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Michael Daly Hawkins, and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by Judge Wallace COUNSEL
Mark Caldwell, Caldwell & Ober, P.L.L.C., Phoenix, Ari- zona, for plaintiff-appellant William D. Avenetti.
Donna M. Montano, Assistant Regional Counsel, San Fran- cisco, California, for the defendant-appellee.
OPINION
WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge:
Avenetti appeals from the summary judgment entered in favor of the Commissioner of the Social Security Administra- tion (Commissioner). He challenges the district court’s inter- pretation of the then-applicable Medical Listing 1.13, 20 C.F.R. Part 404, Subpt. P, App. 1 § 1.13 (1999)…