Nicolas Gomez v. Nancy A. Berryhill

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

NICOLAS G., Case No. 5:19-cv-00635-KES

Plaintiff,

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND

v.

ORDER

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

I.

BACKGROUND

Nicolas G. (“Plaintiff”) applied for Social Security disability benefits in January 2015 alleging disability commencing on June 19, 2010, due to carpal tunnel syndrome (“CTS”) and pain in both wrists, right wrist surgery, a neck injury, and numbness in his left hand. Administrative Record (“AR”) 269, 323. On October 3, 2017, an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) conducted a hearing at which Plaintiff, who was represented by an attorney, appeared and testified, as did

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 a vocational expert (“VE”). AR 53-87. On December 15, 2017, the…