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D. Minn.Substantive rulingFiled Feb. 18, 2022

Kelly T. v. Kijakazi

Judge
Wilhelmina Wright
Docket
0:20-cv-01915
Court
U.S. District Court · District of Minnesota
Pages
1
Social SecuritySummary Judgment
In one sentence

In Kelly T. v. Kijakazi, Judge Wright denied Kelly T.’s summary-judgment motion and granted Kijakazi’s.

Who this affects

Kelly T. and Kilolo Kijakazi; the court denied Kelly T.’s motion for summary judgment and granted Kilolo Kijakazi’s motion.

What happened

Kelly T. v. Kijakazi concerns competing requests for summary judgment, but this order does not describe the underlying Social Security dispute.

The court adopted the magistrate judge’s report and recommendation after finding no clear error because neither side objected. It denied Kelly T.’s motion for summary judgment and granted Kilolo Kijakazi’s motion.

Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright ordered judgment to be entered accordingly.

The detailed version

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

Case
Kelly T. v. Kijakazi · No. 0:20-cv-01915
Judge
Wilhelmina Wright
Date
Feb. 18, 2022

Background

The court considered a January 26, 2022 report and recommendation by United States Magistrate Judge David T. Schultz. The opinion does not explain the underlying Social Security claims or the parties’ arguments. No objections to the report and recommendation were filed.

Court’s Analysis

When no timely objection is filed, the court reviews a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation for clear error. Judge Wright reviewed the report and found no clear error.

Ruling

The court adopted the report and recommendation. It denied Kelly T.’s motion for summary judgment and granted Defendant Kilolo Kijakazi’s motion for summary judgment. The court ordered judgment to be entered accordingly.

Note on the Record

The order refers once to the defendant as “Kilo Kijakazi,” while the caption identifies the defendant as “Kilolo Kijakazi.” The opinion does not provide the reasoning or underlying merits discussed in the adopted report and recommendation.

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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