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D. Minn.Substantive rulingFiled Aug. 13, 2018

Hendrickson v. Berryhill

Judge
Wilhelmina Wright
Docket
0:17-cv-04062
Court
U.S. District Court · District of Minnesota
Pages
1
Social SecuritySummary Judgment
In one sentence

Hendrickson v. Berryhill: Judge Wright denied Hendrickson’s summary-judgment motion and granted Berryhill’s, adopting the magistrate judge’s recommendation.

Who this affects

Kevin Jack Hendrickson’s motion for summary judgment was denied, and Nancy Berryhill’s motion for summary judgment was granted.

What happened

In Kevin Jack Hendrickson v. Nancy Berryhill, the district court considered a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation concerning the parties’ competing requests for summary judgment.

No objections were filed, so the court reviewed the recommendation for clear error, meaning an obvious mistake. The opinion does not describe the underlying Social Security dispute or the recommendation’s reasoning.

Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright found no clear error, adopted the recommendation, denied Hendrickson’s motion for summary judgment, granted Berryhill’s motion, and directed that judgment be entered.

The detailed version

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

Case
Hendrickson v. Berryhill · No. 0:17-cv-04062
Judge
Wilhelmina Wright
Date
Aug. 13, 2018

Background

The matter came before the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota on the June 26, 2018 report and recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge Leo I. Brisbois. The opinion identifies competing motions for summary judgment: Hendrickson’s motion and Berryhill’s motion. It does not state the underlying legal issue or describe the reasoning in the report and recommendation.

Review of the Recommendation

Because no objections were filed, the district court reviewed the report and recommendation for clear error under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 72(b). The court stated that it had reviewed the report and recommendation and found no clear error.

Ruling

The court adopted the June 26, 2018 report and recommendation. It denied Hendrickson’s motion for summary judgment, granted Berryhill’s motion for summary judgment, and directed that judgment be entered accordingly.

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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