FILED
NOT FOR PUBLICATION AUG 01 2011
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
HOLLY J. WILSON, No. 10-35872
Plaintiff - Appellant, D.C. No. 3:09-cv-05411-RJB
v.
MEMORANDUM*
MICHAEL J. ASTRUE, Commissioner,
Social Security Administration,
Defendant - Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Western District of Washington
Robert J. Bryan, District Judge, Presiding
Argued and Submitted July 14, 2011
Seattle, Washington
Before: GILMAN,** CLIFTON, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Holly Wilson filed an application for supplemental security income and
*
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
**
The Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman, Senior Circuit Judge for the Sixth
Circuit, sitting by designation.
disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act. She claimed that she was
disabled due to depression, anxiety, and a traumatic head injury. The administrative
law judge (ALJ) found that Wilson was not disabled because, if she refrained from
drug and alcohol abuse, she could perform her past work as a production assembler.
Accordingly, the ALJ denied Wilson benefits. The magistrate judge recommended
affirming that decision, and the district court agreed essentially for the reasons set
forth by the magistrate judge.
After hearing oral argument and studying both the record and the parties’ briefs,
we conclude that addressing each of the issues raised by Wilson on appeal would be
duplicative of the magistrate judge’s thorough and well-reasoned analysis of these
same issues and would serve no jurisprudential purpose. Because we agree with the
discussion set forth in the magistrate judge’s 31-page Report and Recommendation
and the district court’s 11-page Order Adopting the Report and Recommendation, we
adopt that disposition as our own.
AFFIRMED.
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