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Parties Involved:
Commissioner of Social Security
Defendant
Yvonne Simon
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

FRESNO DIVISION

YVONNE SIMON,

Plaintiff,

v.

CAROLYN W. COLVIN, 

Acting Commissioner of Social Security,

Defendant.

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Civil No. 1:15-cv-01239-EPG

STIPULATION FOR VOLUNTARY 

REMAND PURSUANT TO SENTENCE 

FOUR OF 42 U.S.C. § 405(g); ORDER

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 

reevaluate and explain the weight given to the medical opinion evidence. ODAR will vacate the 

prior ALJ decision and Plaintiff will receive a de novo hearing.

Respectfully submitted,

Date: December 9, 2016 MACKENZIE LEGAL, PLLC

By: /s/ Kelsey Brown* 

KELSEY MACKENZIE BROWN

* By email authorization on Dec. 9, 2016

Attorney for Plaintiff

Date: December 9, 2016 PHILIP A. TALBERT

United States Attorney

By: /s/ Jeffrey Chen 

JEFFREY CHEN

Special Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for Defendant

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ORDER

Based upon the parties’ Stipulation to Voluntary Remand Pursuant to Sentence Four of 

42 U.S.C. § 405(g) (ECF No. 27), and for cause shown, IT IS ORDERED that the abovecaptioned action be remanded to the Commissioner of Social Security for further proceedings 

consistent with the terms of the Stipulation. The Clerk of the Court is DIRECTED to enter final 

judgment in favor of Plaintiff Yvonne Simon and against Defendant Carolyn W. Colvin and to 

close this case.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 12, 2016 /s/

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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