William Estuardo Valdez v. Andrew M. Saul

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 WILLIAM E. V., Case No. 2:20-cv-11256-HDV (AGR)

Plaintiff, ORDER ACCEPTING FINDINGS AND v. RECOMMENDATIONS OF UNITED

STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

KILOLO KIJAKAZI, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, 15 Defendant.

Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636, the Court has reviewed the pleadings, the records on file, and the Report and Recommendation (“Report”) of the United States Magistrate Judge. Further, the Court has engaged in a de novo review of those portions of the Report to which objections have been made. The Report recommends that the Commissioner’s decision denying disability benefits be affirmed. (ECF No. 16.) Plaintiff’s Objections to the Report (ECF No. 18) do not warrant a change to the Magistrate Judge’s findings or recommendation, for the following reasons. Plaintiff objects that the Administrative Law Jude (“ALJ”), in discounting the opinion of Plaintiff’s treating physician, “erred by substituting…