The following excerpt is from Cargill v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec., No. 2:16-cv-949-KJN (E.D. Cal. 2017):
The claimant "bears the burden of proving that . . . she has an impairment that meets or equals the criteria of an impairment listed in Appendix 1 of the Commissioner's regulations." Burch v. Barnhart, 400 F.3d 676, 683 (9th Cir. 2005). "For a claimant to show that his impairment matches a listing, it must meet all of the specified medical criteria. An impairment that manifests only some of those criteria, no matter how severely, does not qualify. . . . For a
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