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Parties Involved:
Commissioner of Social Security
Defendant
Dawn Wydner
Plaintiff

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PHILIP A. TALBERT

United States Attorney

DEBORAH LEE STACHEL

Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX

Social Security Administration

JEFFREY CHEN, CSBN 260516

Special Assistant United States Attorney

Social Security Administration

160 Spear Street, Suite 800

San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone: (415) 977-8939

Facsimile: (415) 744-0134

Email: Jeffrey.Chen@ssa.gov

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

DAWN WYDNER,

Plaintiff,

v.

NANCY A, BERRYHILL, 

Acting Commissioner of Social Security,

Defendant.

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Civil No. 2:16-cv-00458-KJM-CMK

STIPULATION FOR VOLUNTARY 

REMAND PURSUANT TO SENTENCE 

FOUR OF 42 U.S.C. § 405(g)

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

attorneys, and with the approval of the Court, that the Commissioner of Social Security has 

agreed to a voluntary remand of this case pursuant to sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g). The 

purpose of the remand is to offer Plaintiff a new hearing and decision.

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Upon remand to the defendant, the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review 

(ODAR) will remand this case to an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) and direct him or her to 

evaluate and explain the weight given to the medical opinion evidence. Specifically, the ALJ 

should evaluate the opinion of Dr. John Stoner III. ODAR will vacate the prior ALJ decision 

and Plaintiff will receive a de novo hearing.

Respectfully submitted,

Date: February 22, 2017 LAW OFFICE OF JARED T. WALKER, PC

By: /s/ Jared Walker* 

JARED WALKER

* By email authorization on Feb. 22, 2017

Attorney for Plaintiff

Date: February 22, 2017 PHILIP A. TALBERT

United States Attorney

By: /s/ Jeffrey Chen 

JEFFREY CHEN

Special Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for Defendant

ORDER

APPROVED AND SO ORDERED:

Dated: February 23, 2017

Stip. to Remand

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