• Lamear v. Berryhill

    Publication Date: 2017-08-02
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Federal Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-01
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Marco A. Hernandez, District Judge, Presiding Before: Marsha S. Berzon, Paul J. Watford, and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alyson R. Young (argued) and Merrill Schneider, Schneider Kerr & Gibney Law Offices, Portland, Oregon, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Jordan Dylan Goddard (argued), Assistant Regional Counsel; David Morado, Regional Chief Counsel, Seattle Region X; Office of the General Counsel, Social Security Administration, Seattle, Washington; Ronald K. Silver, Assistant United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Seattle, Washington; for Defendant-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 15-35088

    Apparent conflict between vocational expert's recommendations and job descriptions set forth in DOT necessitated further inquiry (Owens, J.)