Rhonda Evelyn Gonzalez v. Andrew M. Saul

1 2 3 O 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 RHONDA E. G., Case No. 8:20-cv-01423 KES 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND

ORDER

14 ANDREW M. SAUL, Commissioner of Social Security, 15 Defendant. 16 17 18 I. 19 BACKGROUND 20 In March 2017, Rhonda E. G. (“Plaintiff”) applied for Title II Social Security 21 disability benefits alleging that she became unable to work fulltime on April 24, 22 2014, due to depression, anxiety, and stress-related physical disorders such as 23 hypertension, insomnia, and incontinence.1 Administrative Record (“AR”) 173–74, 24 199, 212. In April 2014, she pursued a workers’ compensation claim alleging that 25 her supervisor had caused her poor mental health by subjecting her to harassment 26 and unfair treatment. AR 320. On July 10, 2019, an Administrative Law Judge 27 1 Plaintiff had some part-time earnings in 2015 and 2017 that did not rise to 28 the level of substantial…