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S.D.N.Y.Substantive rulingFiled Feb. 4, 2025

Capellan v. Commissioner of Social Security

Judge
Sarah Cave
Docket
1:24-cv-03714
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
1
Social Security
In one sentence

In Capellan v. King, Judge Cave reversed and remanded Gregorio Capellan’s Social Security case for a hearing and new decision.

Who this affects

Gregorio Capellan will receive further administrative proceedings, including an opportunity for a hearing and a new decision by an Administrative Law Judge; the Commissioner of Social Security must conduct those proceedings.

What happened

Gregorio Capellan v. Michelle King concerned Capellan’s challenge to a Social Security decision. The court’s judgment states that the parties’ earlier stipulation and order provided the reasons for the result.

The court reversed the decision and sent the case back to the Social Security Commissioner for further administrative proceedings. The Administrative Law Judge must give Capellan an opportunity for a hearing and issue a new decision.

Judge Sarah Cave entered the judgment on February 4, 2025. The judgment was issued under sentence four of the Social Security statute, 42 U.S.C. § 405(g).

The detailed version

For law students, journalists, and other readers who want the full reasoning

Case
Capellan v. Commissioner of Social Security · No. 1:24-cv-03714
Judge
Sarah Cave
Date
Feb. 4, 2025

Background

The opinion is a judgment in Gregorio Capellan’s Social Security case against Michelle King, identified in the caption as the Acting Commissioner of Social Security. The judgment states that the reasons for the result appear in the parties’ stipulation and the court’s order dated February 4, 2025. Those materials are not included in the provided text, so the judgment does not explain the underlying dispute or identify the specific alleged error.

Ruling

The court reversed the prior decision and remanded, or sent the case back, to the Commissioner of Social Security for further administrative proceedings under sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g). On remand, the Administrative Law Judge must offer Capellan an opportunity for a hearing and issue a new decision.

Disposition

The action was reversed and remanded. The judgment was dated February 4, 2025, and entered by the clerk of court.

The authoritative version

Read the full 1-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.

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