Muldoon v. Astrue

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

YOUNG, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This is a civil action arising out of the denial by the Social Security Administration of pro se plaintiff Emmett Muldoon’s (“Muldoon”) request to reopen his application for disability benefits, which had previously had been decided in Muldoon’s favor in 1998. Muldoon seeks to establish an earlier onset date of disability based on a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis he re ceived in 2005, which he alleges relates back to the disability findings in 1998. The Appeals Council denied Muldoon’s request to reopen his prior determination on the…