(SS) Brager v. Commissioner of Social Security

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 LYNN SUSAN BRAGER, No. 2:20-cv-1092 DB Plaintiff, v. ORDER KILOLO KIJAKAZI, Acting Commissioner of Social Security,1 15 Defendant. 17 This social security action was submitted to the court without oral argument for ruling on plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and defendant’s cross-motion for summary judgment.2 Plaintiff’s motion argues that the Administrative Law Judge erred with respect to the treatment of the medical opinion evidence, plaintiff’s testimony, in determining plaintiff’s residual functional capacity, and at step four of the sequential evaluation. //// 24 1 After the filing of this action Kilolo Kijakazi was appointed Acting Commissioner of Social 25 Security and has, therefore, been substituted as the defendant. See 42 U.S.C. § 405(g) (referring to the “Commissioner’s Answer”); 20 C.F.R. § 422.210(d) (“the person holding the Office of the Commissioner shall, in his official capacity, be the proper defendant”).…