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Nature of Suit Code: 863
Nature of Suit: Social Security - DIWC/DIWW (405(g))
Cause of Action: 42:405 Review of HHS Decision (SSID)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS

PINE BLUFF DIVISION

BRENDA LEE OWENS PLAINTIFF

v. CASE NO. 5:14CV00185 BSM

CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Acting Commissioner,

Social Security Administration DEFENDANT

ORDER

The proposed findings and recommended disposition (“RD”) submitted by United

States Magistrate Judge J. Thomas Ray have been reviewed. No objections have been filed. 

After careful consideration, the RD is adopted in all respects. 

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that:

1. The commissioner’s decision is reversed and this case is remanded pursuant

to sentence four. See 42 U.S.C. § 405(g); Melkonyan v. Sullivan, 501 U.S. 89 (1991). On

remand, the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) should carefully update the record and obtain

an opinion from a treating or consultative psychiatrist or psychologist that specifically

addresses the limiting effects of Ms. Owens’s impairment.

2. The clerk is directed to immediately remand this case to the ALJ along with

a copy of the RD.

DATED this 16th day of September 2015.

______________________________________

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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