Case Name: Melissa Priscilla MORALES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Nancy A. BERRYHILL, Acting Commissioner Social Security, Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-11-20
Citations: 703 F. App'x 525
Docket Number: No. 16-55393
Parties: Melissa Priscilla MORALES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Nancy A. BERRYHILL, Acting Commissioner Social Security, Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before; REINHARDT, GILMAN, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 703
Pages: 525–526

Head Matter:
Melissa Priscilla MORALES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Nancy A. BERRYHILL, Acting Commissioner Social Security, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 16-55393
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted November 7, 2017 Pasadena, California
Filed November 20, 2017
Young Chul Cho, Attorney, Law Offices of Lawrence Rohlfing, Santa Fe Springs, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant
Shea Lita Bond, Elizabeth Firer, Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Social Security Administration, Office of the General Counsel, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant-Appellee
Before; REINHARDT, GILMAN, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument, See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
The Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman, United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Melissa Morales appeals the district court's decision affirming the denial of her application for disability insurance benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C, § 1291, we review the district court's order de novo, Trevizo v. Berryhill, 871 F.3d 664, 674 (9th Cir. 2017), and we affirm.
1. The ALJ did not err in discounting Dr. Shinada's residual functional capacity evaluation ("RFC"). The ALJ gave "specific and legitimate reasons" for discounting Dr. Shinada's RFC; it conflicted with his own treatment notes, the records of other examining physicians, and Morales' testimony about her activities. Id, at 675. In contrast with the severe disability depicted in Dr. Shinada's RFC, his treatment notes document reasonably stable, well-controlled lupus. Furthermore, the limitations in Dr. Shinada's RFC were not corroborat ed by Dr. Lai, Dr. Wallace, Dr. Hwang, or Dr. Abejuela, none of whom reported significant limitations in Morales' hands, arms, joints, or legs, or by Morales' testimony, which did not mention any such limitations but recounted daily exercise, errands, and weekly classes. The ALJ's reasons were set out with a "detailed and thorough summary of the facts and conflicting clinical evidence," followed by the ALJ's interpretation of that evidence and the ALJ's findings. Id. (quoting Magallanes v. Bowen, 881 F.2d 747, 751 (9th Cir. 1989)). Therefore the ALJ's discounting of Dr. Shinada's RFC was not erroneous.
2. Nor did the ALJ err by finding Morales not wholly credible. The ALJ offered four "specific, clear and convincing" reasons for his credibility determination. Id. at 679. Morales' claim that she was continuously too fatigued to work was inconsistent with her symptom reports of intermittent and mild joint pain and fatigue, her daily activities, the lack of objective clinical findings, and her intermittent discontinuation of her medication. The constellation of all four sources of inconsistency, presented in detail and at length by the ALJ, present sufficiently clear and convincing reasons to find Morales not wholly credible.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.