Landa

MEMORANDUM **

Erma Landa (“Landa”) appeals from a district court order denying her appeal from an adverse disability-benefits decision of the Commissioner of Social Security (“Commissioner”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We affirm the judgment of the district court.

We review de novo a district court’s order upholding the Commissioner’s denial of benefits. Hoopai v. Astrue, 499 F.3d 1071, 1074 (9th Cir.2007). “The decision of the Commissioner must be affirmed if it is supported by substantial evidence and the Commissioner applied the correct legal standards.” Id. Substantial evidence is “more than a mere scintilla but less than a preponderance. It means such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.” Desrosiers v. Sec’y of Health & Human Servs., 846 F.2d 573, 577 (9th Cir.1988) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted).

Landa argues that the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) improperly applied the agency’s Medical-Vocational Guidelines *558 (“Grids”) to determine that there were a significant number of jobs that Landa could perform despite her limitations and that she was therefore not disabled. She…