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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA RAUL M., Case No.: 20-cv-2378-AGS Plaintiff, ORDER ON SUMMARY-JUDGMENT

MOTION (ECF 12)

v. Kilolo KIJAKAZI, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, 7 Defendant. 8 The disability claimant here claims to suffer from a poorly understood condition: Gulf War Illness. The Social Security judge ended the five-step disability analysis at Step 2, concluding that claimant’s Gulf War Illness not only wasn’t “severe,” but that it wasn’t even a medically determinable impairment. The issue is whether the judge was correct or whether he halted the analysis too soon. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Raul M. is a veteran of the 1990–91 Gulf War. (ECF 12, at 1.) Since his return from that conflict, Raul alleges he has “suffered from a constellation of symptoms” that eventually “forced [him] to stop working.” (ECF 12, at 1.) He ultimately applied for Social Security disability benefits, alleging a January 2016 onset. (AR 21.) After a disability hearing, the…