Shafer

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

PATRICIA D. SHAFER, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 05-16507 v. MICHAEL J. ASTRUE,*  D.C. No.

CV-02-00774-MEA

Commissioner of the Social

OPINION

Security Administration, Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Mark E. Aspey, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

Submitted August 17, 2007** San Francisco, California

Filed March 10, 2008

Before: Harry Pregerson, Eugene E. Siler, Jr.,*** and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bea

*Michael J. Astrue is substituted for his predecessor Jo Anne Barnhart as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. Fed. R. App. P. 43(c)(2). **The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). ***The Honorable Eugene E. Siler, Jr., Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Mark Caldwell, Caldwell & Ober, P.L.L.C., Phoenix, Ari- zona, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General; Paul K. Charl- ton,…