Barbara Arellano v. Andrew Saul

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BARBARA A.,1 ) Case No. EDCV 19-1373-JPR 11 ) Plaintiff, ) 12 ) MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER v. ) AFFIRMING COMMISSIONER 13 ) ANDREW SAUL, Commissioner ) 14 of Social Security, ) ) 15 Defendant. ) ) 16 17 I. PROCEEDINGS 18 Plaintiff seeks review of the Commissioner’s final decision 19 denying her application for Social Security disability insurance 20 benefits (“DIB”). The matter is before the Court on the parties’ 21 Joint Stipulation, filed June 25, 2020, which the Court has taken 22 under submission without oral argument. For the reasons 23 discussed below, the Commissioner’s decision is affirmed. 24 25 26 1 Plaintiff’s name is partially redacted in line with 27 Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2(c)(2)(B) and the recommendation of the Committee on Court Administration and Case 28 Management of the Judicial Conference of the United States. 1 1 II. BACKGROUND 2 Plaintiff was born in 1962. (Administrative Record (“AR”) 3 74, 210.) She completed 11th grade (AR 74) and worked as a 4 medical…