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Nature of Suit Code: 864
Nature of Suit: Social Security - SSID Title XVI
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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 16-50637

Summary Calendar

DAVID MICHAEL WEST,

Plaintiff-Appellant

v.

NANCY A. BERRYHILL, ACTING COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL 

SECURITY,

Defendant-Appellee

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Western District of Texas

USDC No. 1:14-CV-984

Before JONES, WIENER, and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

Plaintiff-Appellant David Michael West’s appearance before us 

constitutes at least the fourth time he has appealed the denial of his Social 

Security claim of disability: First, before the Administrative Law Judge

(“ALJ”); second, before the Appeals Council; third, before both the Magistrate 

Judge and the United States District Court; and fourth before this court. We 

join the first three tribunals that denied West’s claim by affirming the 

 

* Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not 

be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH 

CIR. R. 47.5.4.

United States Court of Appeals

Fifth Circuit

FILED

February 8, 2017

Lyle W. Cayce

Clerk

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judgment of the district court issued following its de novo review of the entire 

case by affirming the final decision of the Commissioner based, as it was, on 

the ruling of the ALJ.

We have painstakingly reviewed the parties’ contentions on appeal as 

set forth in their briefs, as well as West’s record excerpts and the carefully 

explicated Report and Recommendation of the United States magistrate judge; 

and we have independently reviewed the facts and the law to the extent of our 

authorization to do so. As a result, we are satisfied that the ALJ, the Appeals 

Council, the magistrate judge and the district judge uniformly and consistently 

“got it right” in their rejections of West’s Social Security claims. For the 

reasons patiently set forth by those who heard this case before we did, the 

Order of the district court affirming the Commissioner’s denial of West’s 

requested relief is, in all respects,

AFFIRMED.

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