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Nature of Suit Code: 864
Nature of Suit: Social Security - SSID Title XVI
Cause of Action: 42:0405 Review of HHS Decision

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Jo Anne B. Barnhart replaced Acting Commissioner Larry G.

Massanari November 9, 2001.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS

JONESBORO DIVISION

YOULANDA McKEEVER Plaintiff

v. 3:05CV00223 HLJ

JO ANNE B. BARNHART,

Commissioner, Social

Security Administration,1 Defendant

ORDER

Plaintiff has filed a motion to dismiss this case without

prejudice, explaining that the Appeals Council vacated its decision

upon which this case was based, and issued a new decision, which

Plaintiff has appealed in McKeever v. Barnhart, 3:05CV00223 HLJ.

Defendant has not objected to the granting of Plaintiff's

motion. There appears no other reason that Plaintiff's motion should

not be granted.

Often, under circumstances such as are presented here,

plaintiffs merely ask that the two cases be consolidated. The better

practice is to dismiss the older case without prejudice, as Plaintiff

has requested. 

WHEREFORE, premises considered, Plaintiff's motion to dismiss

without prejudice (docket entry #7) is hereby granted. All other 

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pending motions are hereby rendered moot.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED this 5th day of January, 2006.

 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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