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Nature of Suit Code: 863
Nature of Suit: Social Security - DIWC/DIWW (405(g))
Cause of Action: 42:405 Review of HHS Decision (SSID)

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Stip & Proposed Order 1:07-cv-00591

McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

LUCILLE GONZALES MEIS

Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX

Social Security Administration

LEO R. MONTENEGRO

Special Assistant United States Attorney

333 Market Street, Suite 1500

San Francisco, California 94105

Telephone: (415) 977-8931

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN TURNQUIST, )

) Case No. 1:07-cv-00591-GSA

Plaintiff, )

) STIPULATION AND ORDER

v. ) FOR REMAND PURSUANT TO SENTENCE

) FOUR OF 42 U.S.C. § 405(g), and

MICHAEL J. ASTRUE, )

Commissioner of ) REQUEST FOR ENTRY OF JUDGMENT

Social Security, ) IN FAVOR OF PLAINTIFF AND AGAINST

) DEFENDANT

Defendant. )

______________________________)

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, by and between the parties, through their respective

counsel of record, that this action be remanded to the Commissioner of Social Security for

further administrative action pursuant to section 205(g) of the Social Security Act, as amended,

42 U.S.C. § 405(g), sentence four. On remand, the Appeals Council will direct an

Administrative Law Judge to take the following actions:

1. Obtain updated medical evidence and offer Plaintiff the opportunity for a new hearing;

2. Further evaluate Plaintiff's mental impairments applying the psychiatric review

technique prescribed at 20 C.F.R. § 416.920a;

3. Evaluate the medical source statement of examining psychologist Dr. Kimball

Hawkins;

4. Address any statements from lay witnesses in accordance with the guidelines set forth

at Social Security Ruling 06-03p; 

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Stip & Proposed Order 1:07-cv-00591 2

5. Explain the evidentiary weight accorded to the State agency medical consultants; and

6. Consider any medical evidence concerning Plaintiff's cause of death in order to

determine whether Plaintiff was unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of

any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in

death pursuant to 20 C.F.R. § 416.905.

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

judgment in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant, the Commissioner of Social Security,

reversing the final decision of the Commissioner.

DATE: 2/14/08 /s/ James Yoro

(as authorized by e-mail February 14, 2008)

JAMES YORO

Attorney at Law

Attorney for Plaintiff

DATE: 2/14/08 McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

LUCILLE GONZALES MEIS

Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX

By: /s/ Leo R. Montenegro

LEO R. MONTENEGRO

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney

Attorneys for Defendant

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: February 15, 2008 /s/ Gary S. Austin 

60kij UNI 8 TED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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