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Parties Involved:
Commissioner of Social Security
Defendant
Patricia Cooke
Plaintiff

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BENJAMIN WAGNER CSBN 163581

United States Attorney

DONNA L. CALVERT SBN IL 619786

Acting Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX

Social Security Administration

ELIZABETH BARRY CSBN 203314

Special Assistant United States Attorney

333 Market Street, Suite 1500

San Francisco, California 94105

Telephone: (415) 977-8926

Facsimile: (415) 744-0134

E-Mail: Elizabeth.Barry@ssa.gov

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

PATRICIA COOKE, ) Case No. 1:11-CV-01478-GSA

Plaintiff, )

v. ) ORDER RE DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR

) REMAND PURSUANT TO

MICHAEL J. ASTRUE, ) SENTENCE SIX OF 42 U.S.C. § 405(g)

Commissioner of Social Security, ) FOR FURTHER ADMINISTRATIVE

Defendant. ) PROCEEDINGS

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I. INTRODUCTION

Defendant hereby moves this Court to remand the above-captioned case to the

Commissioner of Social Security for further administrative proceedings, pursuant to sentence six

of 42 U.S.C. section 405(g).

II. STATEMENT OF THE CASE

Meaningful review of this matter is not possible because the administrative record is

missing page two of Exhibit B14F, a medical source statement addressed in the decision. In

addition, the administrative transcript contains typographical errors in the markings identifying the

exhibits. Upon receipt of the Court's order, the Appeals Council will remand the case to an

Defendant’s Motion for Remand

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administrative law judge to obtain the missing page from Exhibit B14F and to correct the exhibits

incorrectly marked as "D."

On March 19, 2012, counsel for the Defendant contacted Plaintiff’s counsel, via email,

requesting that the parties stipulate to remand. As of the filing of this motion, counsel for

Defendant has not received a response to the request for stipulation.

III. ARGUMENT

This Court should remand Plaintiff’s case for further administrative proceedings to give an

administrative law judge an opportunity to obtain the missing page from Exhibit B14F and to

correct the exhibits incorrectly marked as "D." This remand is necessary because meaningful

review is not, otherwise, possible.

IV. CONCLUSION

For the foregoing reasons, Defendant requests this Court to remand this matter to an

administrative law judge to obtain the missing page from Exhibit B14F and to correct the exhibits

incorrectly marked as "D."

Respectfully submitted,

Date: March 19, 2012 BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

 By s/ Elizabeth Barry

ELIZABETH BARRY

Special Assistant U. S. Attorney

Attorneys for Defendant

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ORDER

In consideration of Defendant’s motion to remand filed March 19, 2012 (Doc. 15), and in

light of Plaintiff’s failure to file an opposition to the motion as directed (Doc. 16), the motion is

GRANTED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 6, 2012 /s/ Lawrence J. O'Neill 

b9ed48 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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