Tamara Lanham v. Kilolo Kijakazi

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

MAY 4 2023

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

TAMARA ALYN LANHAM, No. 22-35399

Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 6:20-cv-01601-MC

v.

MEMORANDUM*

KILOLO KIJAKAZI, Acting Commissioner of Social Security,

Defendant-Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Michael J. McShane, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted April 20, 2023 Portland, Oregon

Before: RAWLINSON, BEA, and SUNG, Circuit Judges.

Tamara Lanham appeals the denial of her application for Social Security

benefits. We review the district court’s decision “de novo, and will disturb the

denial of benefits only if the decision contains legal error or is not supported by

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. substantial evidence.” Terry v. Saul, 998 F.3d 1010, 1012 (9th Cir. 2021) (citation

omitted).

1. Any error in incorporating the residual functional capacity (RFC)

limitation of “minimal reading and writing skills”…