Lewis

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

WILLIAM LEWIS,  No. 04-17414 Plaintiff-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-03-01578-GGH

MICHAEL J. ASTRUE,*

OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Gregory G. Hollows, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 17, 2006** San Francisco, California

Filed July 3, 2007

Before: J. Clifford Wallace and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges, and David A. Ezra,*** District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Wallace

*Michael J. Astrue is substituted for his predecessor Jo Anne Barnhardt as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. Fed. R. App. P. 43(c)(2). **This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). ***The Honorable David A. Ezra, United States District Judge for the District of Hawaii, sitting by designation. Bess M. Brewer and Eugenie Denise Mitchell, Brewer & Mitchell, LLP, Sacramento, California, for the plaintiff- appellant.

Peter D. Keisler and McGregor W. Scott, Social Security…