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D. Minn.Substantive rulingFiled July 26, 2022

Angela S. v. Kijakazi

Judge
Wilhelmina Wright
Docket
0:20-cv-02566
Court
U.S. District Court · District of Minnesota
Pages
2
Social SecuritySummary Judgment
In one sentence

In Angela S. v. Kijakazi, Judge Wright partly granted Angela S.’s motion, denied the Commissioner’s motion, and sent the case back for further proceedings.

Who this affects

Angela S. and the Commissioner of Social Security; the case was returned to the Commissioner for further proceedings.

What happened

Angela S. v. Kijakazi involved a report and recommendation issued by Magistrate Judge Becky R. Thorson. No objections to that recommendation were filed, and the opinion does not describe the underlying Social Security dispute.

The court reviewed the recommendation for clear error and found none. The opinion provided here does not explain which parts of Angela S.’s motion were granted or denied.

Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright adopted the recommendation, granted in part and denied in part Angela S.’s motion for summary judgment, denied the Commissioner’s motion for summary judgment, and remanded the matter to the Social Security Administration for further proceedings.

The detailed version

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Case
Angela S. v. Kijakazi · No. 0:20-cv-02566
Judge
Wilhelmina Wright
Date
July 26, 2022

Background

The court considered a July 7, 2022 report and recommendation by United States Magistrate Judge Becky R. Thorson. Neither party filed objections. The opinion provided here does not describe the underlying facts or the specific Social Security issue.

Court’s Review

Because no timely objections were filed, Judge Wright reviewed the report and recommendation for clear error under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 72(b). The court found no clear error.

Ruling

The court adopted the report and recommendation. It granted in part and denied in part Angela S.’s motion for summary judgment. It denied the defendant’s motion for summary judgment. The court remanded the matter to the Commissioner of Social Security for further proceedings under 42 U.S.C. § 405(g), sentence four. The excerpt does not state which portions of Angela S.’s motion were granted or denied.

The authoritative version

Read the full 2-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.

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