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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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BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

DONNA L. CALVERT

Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX

Social Security Administration

ESTHER KIM

Special Assistant United States Attorney

160 Spear Street, Suite 800

San Francisco, California 94105

Telephone: (415) 977-8922

Facsimile: (415) 744-0134

E-Mail: Esther.H.Kim@ssa.gov

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

RICHARD NICHOLAS ACOSTA, SR.,

Plaintiff,

vs.

CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Acting Commissioner 

of Social Security,

Defendant.

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CIVIL NO. 1:14-cv-01422-BAM

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO 

VOLUNTARY REMAND PURSUANT 

TO SENTENCE FOUR OF 42 U.S.C.

§ 405(g) AND TO ENTRY OF 

JUDGMENT

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by the parties, through their undersigned attorneys, and with the 

approval of the Court, that the Commissioner has agreed to a voluntary remand of this case pursuant to 

sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g).

On remand, the Appeals Council will remand the case to an administrative law judge (ALJ) for a 

new hearing and decision. The Appeals Council will instruct the ALJ to update the record and further 

consider Plaintiff’s physical medically determinable impairments at steps 2 and 3 of the sequential evaluation 

process, and in so doing, obtain consultative expert evidence to assist by providing a longitudinal overview 

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of the nature, severity, and limiting effects of Plaintiff’s physical medically determinable impairments 

throughout the period at issue; further evaluate all of the medical opinions of record, and give reasons for the 

weight assigned, further evaluate Plaintiff’s maximum residual functional capacity with citations to evidence 

of record in support of the assessed limitations, and at step five, obtain supplemental vocational expert 

evidence and resolve any conflicts between the vocational expert testimony and the Dictionary of 

Occupational Titles.

The parties further request that the Clerk of the Court be directed to enter a final judgment in 

favor of Plaintiff, and against Defendant, reversing the final decision of the Commissioner.

Respectfully submitted,

Dated: July 21, 2015 BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

DONNA L. CALVERT

Acting Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX

Social Security Administration

By: /s/ Esther Kim 

Esther Kim

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney

Attorneys for Defendant

Dated: July 21, 2015

_/s/ Shellie Lott____________

Shellie Lott

(as authorized via email)

Attorney at Law

Attorney for Plaintiff

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ORDER

Pursuant to the Stipulation of the parties (Doc. 18), it is hereby ORDERED this action be

remanded to the Commissioner of Social Security for further administrative action consistent with the 

above Stipulation.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 22, 2015 /s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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