Jose Francisco Castellanos v. Nancy A. Berryhill

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOSE FRANCISCO C., Case No. 2:18-cv-09387-KES

Plaintiff,

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND

v.

ORDER

ANDREW M. SAUL, Commissioner of Social Security,1 15 Defendant.

I.

BACKGROUND

Plaintiff Jose Francisco C. (“Plaintiff”) applied for Supplemental Security Income (“SSI”) benefits in September 2015 within days of his eighteenth birthday, alleging disability based on mental impairments that he has had since childhood. Administrative Record (“AR”) 49, 489, 832. On September 12, 2017, an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) conducted a hearing at which Plaintiff, who was represented by an attorney, appeared and testified, as did a vocational expert

1 Andrew Saul is now the Commissioner of Social Security and is automatically substituted as a party pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 25(d). 28 (“VE”). AR 373-400. On October 25, 2017, the ALJ issued an unfavorable decision. AR 40-54. The ALJ found that…