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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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McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

DEBORAH LEE STACHEL

Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX

Social Security Administration

MARGARET BRANICK-ABILLA, CSBN 223600

Special Assistant United States Attorney

160 Spear Street, Suite 800

San Francisco, California 94105

Telephone: (415) 977-8929

Facsimile: (415) 744-0134

E-Mail: Margaret.Branick-Abilla@ssa.gov

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

ROBERT ALLEN DRAGON,

Plaintiff,

vs.

ANDREW SAUL, 

Commissioner of Social Security,

Defendant.

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Case No. No. 1:19-cv-00512-SKO

STIPULATION & ORDER TO REMAND 

PURSUANT TO SENTENCE FOUR OF 42 

U.S.C. § 405(g)

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, by and between plaintiff Robert Allen Dragon (Plaintiff) 

and Andrew Saul, Commissioner of Social Security (the Commissioner or Defendant), through 

their respective counsel of record, and with the approval of the Court, that this action be 

remanded for further administrative proceedings pursuant to sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g). 

The Appeals Council will remand the case to an administrative law judge (ALJ). On 

remand, the Appeals Council will instruct the ALJ to further evaluate Plaintiff’s mental 

impairments; further consider the medical evidence, including but not limited to medical opinion 

evidence; reconsider Plaintiff’s residual functional capacity as appropriate; take further action, as 

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warranted, to complete the administrative record; complete the remaining steps of the sequential 

disability analysis as necessary; and issue a new decision.

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: February 18, 2020 PENA & BROMBERG, PLC

By:/s/ Jonathan O. Pena*

JONATHAN O. PENA

Attorneys for Plaintiff

[*As authorized by e-mail on Feb. 18, 2020] 

Dated: February 19, 2020 McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

DEBORAH LEE STACHEL

Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX

Social Security Administration

By:/s/ Margaret Branick-Abilla_ __

MARGARET BRANICK-ABILLA

Special Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for Defendant

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ORDER

Based upon the parties’ above “Stipulation & Order to Remand Pursuant to Sentence Four 

of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g),” (Doc. 20), and for good cause shown,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the above-captioned action is REMANDED to the 

Commissioner of Social Security for further proceedings consistent with the terms of the 

stipulation.

The Clerk is hereby DIRECTED to: (1) enter judgment in favor of Plaintiff Robert Allen 

Dragon and against Defendant Andrew Saul, Commissioner of Social Security; and (2) 

administratively close the file. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 19, 2020 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto .

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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