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Parties Involved:
Social Security Administration
Defendant
Robert Walden
Plaintiff

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS

JONESBORO DIVISION

ROBERT WALDEN PLAINTIFF

v. 3:04CV00125 JTR

JO ANNE B. BARNHART,

Commissioner, Social

Security Administration DEFENDANT

ORDER

Defendant has filed a motion to remand this case pursuant to sentence four of 42 U.S.C.

§ 405(g) (1995):

The court shall have the power 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.

The Commissioner seeks remand for further development of the record, including a new

hearing to obtain additional vocational testimony, and to issue a new decision. Plaintiff promptly

replied that he has no objection to the requested remand. Under the circumstances, a sentence four

remand is appropriate. Buckner v. Apfel, 213 F.3d 1006, 1010-11 (8th Cir. 2000). 

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Defendant's Motion to Remand (docket entry #13) is

hereby GRANTED. All other pending motions are hereby rendered MOOT. This is a "sentence

four" remand. This dismissal is without prejudice to Plaintiff’s subsequent filing for attorney’s fees

under the Equal Access to Justice Act.

DATED this 19th day of July, 2005.

_______________________________________

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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