(SS) Robles v. Commissioner of Social Security

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOB ROBLES, Case No. 2:20-cv-01069-JDP (SS) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING CLAIMANT’S MOTION

FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

v. ECF No. 19 COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL

SECURITY, ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S

CROSS-MOTION FOR SUMMARY Defendant. JUDGMENT 16 ECF No. 22 17 Robles (“claimant”) challenges the final decision of the Commissioner of Social Security (“Commissioner”) denying his application for disability benefits and supplemental security income. ECF No. 1. He argues that the medical evidence demonstrated that he required “rest”— which he interprets to mean time off-task—and that the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) erred by failing to account for that evidence. The Commissioner responds by arguing that the ALJ accounted for claimant’s need for “rest”—interpreting the term to mean time off his feet—by providing a time-limited, sit-stand option. This case thus turns primarily on the meaning of 25 …