Stevenson

MEMORANDUM **

Beverly Stevenson appeals the dismissal of her complaint challenging the Social Security Administration’s (“SSA”) delay in the processing of her claim for disability benefits. She also appeals the dismissal of her claim for mandamus relief.

We lack jurisdiction because Stevenson’s personal interest in the litigation has disappeared, and thus the case is moot. See Dufresne v. Veneman, 114 F.3d 952, 954-55 (9th Cir.1997). Stevenson’s petition to the district court for declaratory, injunc-tive or mandamus relief sought to remedy SSA’s delay in adjudicating her motion for reconsideration. She sought an order compelling prompt consideration of her motion for reconsideration, a prompt scheduling of a hearing before an administrative law judge if reconsideration was denied, and a prompt review by the Appeals Council of the Administrative Law Judge’s ( ALJ”) decision. Since the initiation of this lawsuit, all of those events have occurred, promptly or not. The SSA reconsidered the initial denial of benefits, an ALJ reviewed that decision, an Appeals Council reviewed the ALJ’s decision and remanded the claim, and Stevenson will have an additional hearing before the ALJ.…