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Nature of Suit Code: 864
Nature of Suit: Social Security - SSID Title XVI
Cause of Action: 42:405 Review of HHS Decision (SSID)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS

WESTERN DIVISION

AARON E. SMOTHERS Plaintiff

v. 4:08CV04185 HLJ

MICHAEL J. ASTRUE,

Commissioner, Social 

Security Administration, Defendant

ORDER

It has become apparent to the Court from reading the transcript

that Plaintiff is a resident of Gurdon, Arkansas. (Tr. 1, 5, 19, 40,

41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 53, 68, 80, 81, 95, 109, 147) Gurdon is in Clark

County, which is in the Western District of Arkansas.

Any individual, after any final decision of the

Commissioner of Social Security made after a hearing to

which he was a party, . . . may obtain a review of such

decision by a civil action . . . . Such action shall be

brought in the district court of the United States for the

judicial district in which the plaintiff resides, or has

his principal place of business . . . . 

42 U.S.C. § 405(g).

Section 405(g) is quite clear that venue is proper where

Plaintiff resides. (Since he is seeking disability benefits, he is

presumably not presently employed.) Accord, Randolph v. Barnhart,

386 F.3d 835, 836 n.3 (8th Cir. 2004); Mazaleski v. Sullivan, (1992,

D. D.C.) CCH Unemployment Ins. Rep. ¶ 16837A; 1992 WL 205095.

Accordingly, it is hereby

ORDERED that this case is hereby transferred to the United 

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States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.

DATED this 29th day of March, 2010.

 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

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