Richard Gomez Mendoza v. Andrew Saul

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RICHARD G. M., Case No. 5:19-cv-1961-KES

Plaintiff,

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND

v.

ORDER

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

I.

PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Plaintiff Richard G. M. (“Plaintiff”) testified that he worked for approximately twenty-one years driving an 18-wheeler mail truck until having a motor vehicle accident in 2013, after which he was laid off because his employer’s “insurance didn’t want to okay [him] to drive anymore.” Administrative Record (“AR”) 41, 43-44. He filed an application for Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits alleging that he became disabled and unable to work on September 3, 2013, at age 62 due to “back injury.” AR 134, 158. On November 7, 2018, the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) conducted a hearing at which Plaintiff, who was represented by counsel testified, along…