Ernesto Rodriguez v. Andrew Saul

O 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ERNESTO R., Case No. 2:20-CV-01494 KES Plaintiff,

v. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND

ORDER

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

17 I. BACKGROUND Ernesto R. (“Plaintiff”) was born in Mexico in 1969. Administrative Record (“AR”) 71, 204. He immigrated to the United States at age 15 and worked for 11 years as a painter. AR 71, 458, 715; but see AR 1037 (describing former occupation as “porter”). After completing vocational training, he worked as an auto mechanic at Pep Boys from 2000 to 2015. AR 70, 234. He stopped working on April 23, 2015,1 after an August 2014 industrial accident; he fell off a vehicle and 26 1 Plaintiff had reported earnings in 2016 from a qualified settlement fund, AR 27 220, but the ALJ noted that those earnings were not substantial gainful activity, AR 23. experienced pain and swelling of his left ankle. AR 70, 233, 457. He…