Robert Strauss v. CSSA, No. 10-35139 (9th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CasePlaintiff filed for social security disability benefits as a result of left-knee chronic neuropathic pain, hypertension, and depression. At issue was whether the district court's decision to direct an award of benefits, rather than to remand for further agency proceedings, exceeded its statutory authority. The court held that the district court erred in awarding benefits based upon the ALJ's failure to follow its remand order rather than consider whether plaintiff was disabled within the meaning of the statute or whether the evidence the ALJ improperly excluded or discounted was true.
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