UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO

WESTERN DIVISION

MACHELLE COLLINS, Case No. 1:18-cv-268

 Plaintiff, Black, J.

Litkovitz, M.J.

vs.

COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL REPORT AND

SECURITY, RECOMMENDATION

Defendant. 

 

This matter is before the Court on the Commissioner’s motion to enter an order and 

judgment reversing the final decision of the Commissioner of Social Security, pursuant to the 

fourth sentence of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g), with remand to the Commissioner for further 

administrative proceeding. (Doc. 19). Plaintiff Machelle Collins has not responded to the 

motion.

For good cause shown, this matter should be remanded back to the Commissioner for 

further administrative proceedings pursuant to Sentence Four of the Social Security Act, 42 

U.S.C. § 405(g). On remand, the Appeals Council will take the necessary action to provide Ms. 

Collins with written notice of the determinations made on the Title II applications for Child 

Insurance Benefits (Survivor’s Claim) filed on December 12, 2011 and October 18, 2016. 

IT IS THEREFORE RECOMMENDED THAT the motion to remand (Doc. 19) be

GRANTED; this case be REMANDED to the Commissioner of Social Security to take the 

necessary action to provide Ms. Collins with written notice of the determinations made on the Title II 

applications for Child Insurance Benefits (Survivor’s Claim) filed on December 12, 2011 and 

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October 18, 2016; and the Clerk of Court enter a separate judgment as required by Fed. R. Civ. P. 

58. 

Date:_____________ __________________________

Karen L. Litkovitz

United States Magistrate Judge

April 17, 2020

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO

WESTERN DIVISION

MACHELLE COLLINS, Case No. 1:18-cv-268

 Plaintiff, Black, J.

Litkovitz, M.J.

vs.

COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL 

SECURITY, 

Defendant. 

NOTICE

Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b), WITHIN 14 DAYS after being served with a copy of 

the recommended disposition, a party may serve and file specific written objections to the 

proposed findings and recommendations. This period may be extended further by the Court on 

timely motion for an extension. Such objections shall specify the portions of the Report objected 

to and shall be accompanied by a memorandum of law in support of the objections. If the Report 

and Recommendation is based in whole or in part upon matters occurring on the record at an oral 

hearing, the objecting party shall promptly arrange for the transcription of the record, or such 

portions of it as all parties may agree upon, or the Magistrate Judge deems sufficient, unless the 

assigned District Judge otherwise directs. A party may respond to another party=s objections 

WITHIN 14 DAYS after being served with a copy thereof. Failure to make objections in 

accordance with this procedure may forfeit rights on appeal. See Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140 

(1985); United States v. Walters, 638 F.2d 947 (6th Cir. 1981). 

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