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Parties Involved:
Jo Anne B. Barnhart
Defendant
Deborah Jordan
Plaintiff

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KEVIN V. RYAN, SBN 118321

United States Attorney

JOANN M. SWANSON, SBN 88143

Assistant United States Attorney

Chief, Civil Division

SARA WINSLOW, DCBN 457643

Assistant United States Attorney

 450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36055

 San Francisco, California 94102

 Telephone: (415) 436-7260

 Facsimile: (415) 436-7169

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

DEBORAH JORDAN, )

) Plaintiff, ) CIVIL NO. 04-04043 MHP

)

v. ) STIPULATION AND ORDER OF ) REMAND JO ANNE B. BARNHART, )

Commissioner of Social Security, )

) Defendant. )

______________________________)

The Commissioner has notified the United States Attorney’s Office that the Appeals Council

has requested a remand of the above-captioned case pursuant to sentence six of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g),

because the claim file of the Administrative Law Judge’s decision dated February 18, 2003 cannot be

located at this time.

Upon receipt of the court order, the Appeals Council will remand the case to an

Administrative Law Judge for reconstruction of the administrative record and to hold another hearing

and issue a new decision

Pursuant to section 205(g) of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 405(g):

The court may, on motion of the Commissioner made for good cause shown before he

files his answer, remand the case to the Commissioner for further action by the

Commissioner . 

See Melkonyan v. Sullivan, 501 U.S. 89, 101 n.2 (1991); Shalala v. Schaefer, 509 U.S. 292(1993).

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JORDAN, REMAND STIP S6 (jk)

C 04-04043 MHP 2

The joint conference committee of Congress in reporting upon the Social Security Disability

Amendments of 1980 (to the Social Security Act) stated that in some cases procedural difficulties,

such as an inaudible hearing tape or a lost file, necessitate a request for remand by the Secretary. The

intent of the committee was that such procedural defects be considered "good cause" for remand. 

The committee states:

Such a situation is an example of what could be considered 'good cause' for remand. 

Where, for example, the tape recording of the claimant's oral hearing is lost or

inaudible, or cannot otherwise be transcribed, or where the claimant's files cannot be

located or are incomplete, good cause would exist to remand the claim to the

Secretary for appropriate action to produce a record . . . (H.R. Rep. No. 96-944, 96th

Cong., 2d Sess. 59 (1980)).

Good cause having been shown, the parties agree that this action should be remanded to the

Commissioner of Social Security for further proceedings as stated above. Defendant will reinstate

the action in this Court when plaintiff’s record is complete and/or when an administrative transcript

is prepared.

Dated: July 1, 2005 /s/

GERI KAHN

Attorney for Plaintiff

KEVIN V. RYAN

United States Attorney

Dated: July 1, 2005 By: /s/

SARA WINSLOW

Assistant United States Attorney

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED that this action is remanded, pursuant to

sentence six of 42 U.S.C. 405(g), to the Commissioner for further proceedings as stated above.

Dated: ________________________________

MARILYN HALL PATEL

United States District Judge

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Judge Marilyn H. Patel

July 5, 2005