Klemm

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

THOMAS KLEMM, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 06-16981 v.  D.C. No.

CV 04-2140 DAD

MICHAEL J. ASTRUE, Commissioner of Social Security Administration, OPINION Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Dale A. Drozd, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 13, 2008—San Francisco, California

Filed September 16, 2008

Before: A. Wallace Tashima, M. Margaret McKeown, and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Tashima

12901 12904 KLEMM v. ASTRUE

COUNSEL

Ian M. Sammis, San Rafael, California, for the plaintiff- appellant.

Deborah Lee Stachel, Special Assistant United States Attor- ney, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellee.

OPINION

TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:

Appellee Commissioner of the Social Security Administra- tion (“Commissioner”) denied Appellant Thomas Klemm’s motion to reopen an application for Disability Insurance Ben- efits (“DIB”) under Title II of the Social Security Act. Klemm subsequently filed a complaint with the District…