Mitchell v. Social Security Administration

BACKGROUND

21 Plaintiff filed applications for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security 22 income under Title II and Title XVI of the Social Security Act, respectively on July 1, 2015 and 23 July 28, 2015. (Administrative Record (“AR”) 15, 57, 69, 187, 194.) In both applications, she 24 alleged a disability onset date of January 1, 2014. (AR 15, 187, 194.) After her applications were 25 denied initially and upon reconsideration, she submitted a written request for a hearing and 26 Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) Arthur Zeidman held a hearing on September 12, 2017. (AR 27 15, 28–54.) At the hearing, Plaintiff requested additional time to submit medical records not yet obtained. (AR 15.) The ALJ kept the record open for one week post-hearing and the Plaintiff submitted additional medical records within that time. (Id.) On April 3, 2018, the ALJ issued a decision finding that Plaintiff was not disabled. (AR 16.) In his decision, the ALJ found that Plaintiff had the severe physical impairments of osteoarthritis of the left knee, and a meniscus tear and anterior cruciate ligament tear of the left knee. (AR 18.) Further, the ALJ…