Legal Opinion
Tommasetti v. Astrue
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 17, 2008No. 06-55999PublishedCited by 3,895 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge:
Anthony Tommasetti (“Tommasetti”) filed an application for Social Security benefits claiming that he was unable to work because of lower back pain and diabetes mellitus. After an initial denial of that application, and following what the district court characterized as an “administrative odyssey,” the Social Security Appeals Council remanded Tommasetti’s claim to a new Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) to conduct a de novo hearing. At that hearing, the ALJ took testimony from a medical expert, a vocational expert (“VE”), and Tommasetti. After largely rejecting the…
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