(SS) Fields v. Commissioner of Social Security

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MARJI L. FIELDS, Case No. 2:20-cv-01292-JDP (SS) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING CLAIMANT’S MOTION

FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

13 v. ECF No.

COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL

SECURITY, ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S

CROSS-MOTION FOR SUMMARY

Defendant. JUDGMENT ECF No. 20 18 19 Marji Fields challenges the final decision of the Commissioner of Social Security denying her application for Title II disability benefits. The administrative law judge (“ALJ”) found that Fields was not disabled because she could perform three jobs existing in significant numbers in the national economy. Fields raises three points of error. First, she argues that the ALJ improperly rejected the opinion of her treating physician, who opined that she had more limiting impairments than those found by the ALJ. Second, she argues that the ALJ erred in rejecting Fields’ own testimony about the severity…