Legal Opinion

Adamson v. Barnhart

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided June 18, 2002No. 01-16372; D.C. No. CV-00-00858-JWSPublished

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM **

Elaine Adamson appeals the district court’s order remanding her action for disability benefits to the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) for further proceedings. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review for abuse of discretion the district court’s decision to remand to the ALJ for further proceedings rather than for payment of benefits, Harman v. Apfel, 203 F.3d 1151, 1155 (9th Cir.2000), and we affirm.

The district court remanded because, in light of this court’s intervening decision in *915Reddick v. Chater, 157 F.8d 715, 728 (9th Cir.1998), the ALJ may have erred by…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Lee R. MARCIA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1990
  2. Harman v. ApfelCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000

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