Stubbs-Danielson

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LOUANNA STUBBS-DANIELSON, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 07-35096 v.  D.C. No.

CV-06-05212-JKA

MICHAEL J. ASTRUE, Commissioner of Social Security, OPINION Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington J. Kelley Arnold, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 5, 2008—Seattle, Washington

Filed August 22, 2008

Before: Ferdinand F. Fernandez and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges, and Irma E. Gonzalez,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Gonzalez

*The Honorable Irma E. Gonzalez, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, sitting by designa- tion.

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COUNSEL

D. James Tree, Attorney at Law, Yakima, Washington, for the plaintiff-appellant.

David Blume, Assistant Regional Counsel, Social Security Administration, Seattle, Washington, for the defendant- appellee.

OPINION

GONZALEZ, Chief District Judge:

Appellant Louanna Stubbs-Danielson appeals the district court’s…