Cassandra Ellen Lyons v. Andrew Saul

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CASSANDRA E. L., Case No. 5:19-cv-1783- KES

Plaintiff,

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND

v.

ORDER

ANDREW SAUL, Commissioner of Social Security, 15 Defendant.

I.

PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Plaintiff Cassandra E. L. (“Plaintiff”) applied for supplemental security income (“SSI”) disability benefits in 2015, alleging a disability onset date of December 15, 2012. Administrative Record (“AR”) 35, 353. On July 16, 2018, an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) conducted a hearing which Plaintiff and her husband attended without a legal representative. AR 166-206. On September 13, 2018, the ALJ issued an unfavorable decision. AR 35-43. The ALJ found that

1 Elsewhere, Plaintiff claimed that she became unable to work on February 10, 2013, and also December 15, 2014. See AR 324, 358. 28 Plaintiff suffered from medically determinable severe impairments…