Brickey Rushing v. Andrew M. Saul

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BRICKEY R., ) Case No. CV 19-4953-JPR 11 ) Plaintiff, ) 12 ) MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER v. ) 13 ) ANDREW SAUL, Commissioner ) 14 of Social Security, ) ) 15 Defendant. ) ) 16 I. PROCEEDINGS Plaintiff seeks review of the Commissioner’s final decision denying his application for Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits (“DIB”). The matter is before the Court on the parties’ Joint Stipulation, filed February 3, 2020, which the Court has taken under submission without oral argument. For the reasons stated below, the Commissioner’s decision is affirmed. 24 25 26 1 Plaintiff’s name is partially redacted in line with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2(c)(2)(B) and the recommendation of the Committee on Court Administration and Case Management of the Judicial Conference of the United States. 1 II. BACKGROUND Plaintiff was born in 1969. (Administrative Record (“AR”) 132.) He has a high-school education and worked for more than 17 years as a groundskeeper for…