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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

PINE BLUFF DIVISION

KEITH DENNIS Plaintiff

v. 5:08CV00172 WRW/HLJ

MICHAEL J. ASTRUE,

Commissioner, Social 

Security Administration, Defendant

ORDER

Defendant has filed a Motion to Dismiss, or in the Alternative,

to Transfer this Case, on Grounds of Improper Venue. (Docket #5)

The Motion points out that Plaintiff lives in Camden, Arkansas, 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.

Plaintiff has responded that he has no objection to the granting

of Defendant’s Motion.

Accordingly, it is hereby

ORDERED that Defendant's Motion to Transfer this case to the

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United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas is

hereby granted. The Clerk is directed to immediately transfer this

case.

DATED this 25th day of July, 2008.

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

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