Maria Del Rosario Elizarraraz v. Nancy A. Berryhill
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
MARIA DEL ROSARIO E., Case No. 5:19-cv-00982-KES
Plaintiff,
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND
v.
ORDER
ANDREW SAUL, Commissioner of Social Security,1 15 Defendant.
I.
BACKGROUND
In December 2014, Plaintiff Maria Del Rosario E. (“Plaintiff”) applied for
Title II disability benefits alleging an onset date of March 13, 2013 (age 42), the date on which she fell at work and broke her left kneecap. Administrative Record (“AR”) 56, 59, 224. On May 7, 2018, an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) conducted a hearing at which Plaintiff, who was represented by counsel, appeared 24 1 Andrew Saul is substituted for his predecessor, Nancy Berryhill. 42 U.S.C. § 405(g); Fed. R. Civ. P. 25(d). 2 While Plaintiff testified that she has not worked since March 2013 (AR 58), in August 2014, she told Kaiser that “she has a lot of anxiety recently at work.” AR 423, 683. 28 and testified along with a vocational expert…