Janet Grimes v. Commissioner of Social Security

MEMORANDUM

The district court affirmed the Commissioner of Social Security’s denial of Janet Grimes’s application for Social Security disability insurance benefits. Grimes appeals. We review a district court’s decision in a social security case de novo. Ryan v. Comm’r of Soc. Sec., 528 F.3d 1194, 1198 (9th Cir.2008). The decision of the ALJ must be upheld if it is free of legal error and supported by substantial evidence in the record. Id. We affirm.

We have reviewed the record, and we agree with the reasoning and conclusion set forth in the district court’s June 20, 2011 order. The ALJ offered specific, clear, and convincing reasons regarding the conflicting objective and subjective evidence to support his adverse credibility finding against Plaintiff. The ALJ also properly discounted the testimony of Plaintiffs husband based upon similar contradictions with the objective evidence in the record. The ALJ did not err in rejecting the opinion of Plaintiffs treating physician, Dr. Jennifer D. Simpson. “A physician’s opinion of disability ‘premised to a large extent upon the claimant’s own accounts of [her] symptoms and limitations’ may be disregarded where those complaints have…