Cecelia v. Martinez v. Andrew M. Saul

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CECELIA V. M., Case No. 5:19-cv-1678-KES

Plaintiff,

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND

v.

ORDER

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

I.

PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Plaintiff Cecelia M. (“Plaintiff”) applied for Titles II and XVI social security disability benefits in 2016, alleging a disability onset date of June 8, 2014, due to a work injury that caused lower back pain. Administrative Record (“AR”) 42-43, 46, 246-48. On September 26, 2018, an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) conducted a hearing that Plaintiff attended along with her attorney. AR 35-64. On November 2, 2018, the ALJ issued an unfavorable decision. AR 13-29. The ALJ found that Plaintiff suffered from medically determinable severe impairments consisting of “fibromyalgia; bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome; non-insulin dependent diabetes with polyneuropathy;…