Thornton v. Commissioner of Social Security

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 AT SEATTLE 9 10 HELEN JOSEPHINE THORNTON, CASE NO. C18-1409JLR et al., 11 ORDER ADOPTING REPORT Plaintiffs, AND RECOMMENDATION 12 v. 13 COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY, 14 15 Defendant. 16 I. INTRODUCTION 17 Before the court is Magistrate Judge J. Richard Creatura’s combined report and 18 recommendation on Plaintiffs Helen Josephine Thornton and National Committee to 19 Preserve Social Security and Medicare’s (the “National Committee”) (collectively, 20 “Plaintiffs”) complaint and motion for class certification (the…