(SS) Ramirez v. Commissioner of Social Security

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 JESSE RAMIREZ, Case No. 1:18-cv-01322-SAB 11 Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S SOCIAL SECURITY APPEAL v. (ECF Nos. 15, 19, 20)

COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL

SECURITY,

Defendant.

I.

INTRODUCTION

Jesse Ramirez (“Plaintiff”) seeks judicial review of a final decision of the Commissioner

20 of Social Security (“Commissioner” or “Defendant”) denying his application for disability

21 benefits pursuant to the Social Security Act. The matter is currently before the Court on the

22 parties’ briefs, which were submitted, without oral argument, to Magistrate Judge Stanley A. 1 23 Boone.

Plaintiff suffers from morbid obesity, bilateral knee meniscal tears,…