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

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROSALINA CRESPO AGUNDES,

Plaintiff,

v.

NANCY A. BERRYHILL, Acting 

Commissioner of Social Security,

Defendant.

Case No.: 3:16-cv-01505-BEN-JLB

ORDER:

(1) GRANTING REPORT AND 

RECOMMENDATION (ECF No. 27);

(2) GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S 

MOTION FOR SUMMARY 

JUDGMENT (ECF No. 16);

(3) DENYING DEFENDANT’S 

CROSS MOTION FOR SUMMARY 

JUDGMENT (ECF No. 20); and

(4) REMANDING CASE FOR 

FURTHER PROCEEDINGS

Plaintiff Rosalina Crespo Agundes filed this action seeking judicial review of the 

Social Security Commissioner’s1 denial of her application for disability insurance 

 

1 When Plaintiff initiated this action, Carolyn W. Colvin was serving as the Acting 

Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. Nancy A. Berryhill is now serving 

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benefits. Plaintiff filed a motion for summary judgment, and Defendant filed a crossmotion for summary judgment and an opposition to Plaintiff’s motion.

On August 14, 2017, Magistrate Judge Andrew G. Schopler issued a thoughtful 

and thorough Report and Recommendation, recommending that this Court grant 

Plaintiff’s motion, deny Defendant’s motion, and remand the case so the Administrative 

Law Judge (“ALJ”) can make specific findings on Plaintiff’s language capabilities and 

the impact they have on her ability to work. See Pinto v. Massanari, 249 F.3d 840, 847 

(9th Cir. 2001) (holding that when an ALJ “rel[ies] on a job description in the Dictionary 

of Titles,” the ALJ must “definitively explain” the impact of the claimant’s illiteracy “on 

her ability to find and perform a similar job”). Objections to the Report and 

Recommendation were due August 28, 2017. Neither party has filed any objections. 

A district judge “may accept, reject, or modify the recommended disposition” of a 

magistrate judge on a dispositive matter. Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b)(3); see also 28 U.S.C. 

§ 636(b)(1). “[T]he district judge must determine de novo any part of the [report and 

recommendation] that has been properly objected to.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b)(3). 

However, “[t]he statute makes it clear that the district judge must review the magistrate 

judge’s findings and recommendations de novo if objection is made, but not otherwise.” 

United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114, 1121 (9th Cir. 2003) (en banc); see also 

Wang v. Masaitis, 416 F.3d 992, 1000 n.13 (9th Cir. 2005). “Neither the Constitution nor 

the statute requires a district judge to review, de novo, findings and recommendations 

that the parties themselves accept as correct.” Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d at 1121. 

The Court has considered and agrees with the Report and Recommendation. The 

Court ADOPTS the Report and Recommendation. (ECF No. 27). Plaintiff’s motion for 

summary judgment is GRANTED. (ECF No. 16). Defendant’s cross-motion for 

summary judgment is DENIED. (ECF No. 20). The case is REMANDED so the ALJ 

 

as the Acting Commissioner. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 25(d), 

Berryhill is automatically substituted as a party.

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can make specific findings regarding Plaintiff’s language capabilities and the impact they 

have on her ability to work.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: August 29, 2017

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