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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 

FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA 

SOUTHERN DIVISION 

MICHAEL P. ANDERSON, ) 

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 Plaintiff, ) 

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v. ) CIVIL ACTION NO. 11-00582-N 

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MICHAEL J. ASTRUE, ) 

Commissioner of Social Security, ) 

 ) 

 Defendant. ) 

ORDER 

This action is before the Court on an unopposed motion (doc. 18) filed by the 

defendant, the Commissioner of Social Security (“Commissioner”), under sentence four 

of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g), to enter a judgment of remand to the Commissioner for further 

administrative proceedings. It is the Commissioner’s professed intent that, on remand, 

the Appeals Council will refer the case to an Administrative Law Judge with directions to 

obtain vocational expert evidence to clarify the effect of all assessed limitations on the 

claimant’s occupational base and resolve any conflicts between the vocational expert’s 

testimony and information contained in the U.S. Dep’t of Labor, Dictionary of 

Occupational Titles (4th ed. 1991). See Doc. 18 at 1. The Court is advised that the 

plaintiff has no objection to this requested relief. This action has been referred to the 

undersigned Magistrate Judge to conduct all proceedings and order the entry of judgment 

in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) and Fed. R.Civ.Pro.73 (doc. 20) and pursuant to 

the consent of the parties (doc. 19). 

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In light of the foregoing, and the plain language of sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 

405(g) empowering this Court “to enter, upon the pleadings and transcript of the record, a 

judgment affirming, modifying, or reversing the decision of the Commissioner of Social 

Security, with or without remanding the cause for a rehearing[,] it is ORDERED that the 

Commissioner’s unopposed motion is hereby GRANTED and that the Commissioner’s 

decision in this case is hereby REVERSED and the case REMANDED pursuant to 

sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g), for further administrative proceedings. See

Melkonyan v. Sullivan, 501 U.S. 89, 90 (1991). The remand pursuant to sentence four of 

42 U.S.C. § 405(g) makes the plaintiff a prevailing party for purposes of the Equal 

Access to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2412 and terminates this Court’s jurisdiction over this 

matter. See Shalala v. Schaefer, 509 U.S. 292, 298 (1993). 

DONE this 13th day of July, 2012. 

 /s/ Katherine P. Nelson 

 KATHERINE P. NELSON 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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