Ashley A. v. Kijakazi
- Wilhelmina Wright
- 0:22-cv-00280
- U.S. District Court · District of Minnesota
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In Ashley A. v. Kijakazi, Judge Wright remanded the Social Security case after partially granting Ashley A.’s summary-judgment motion and denying the Commissioner’s motion.
Ashley A. and the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration; the case was returned to the Commissioner for further proceedings.
What happened
In Ashley A. v. Kijakazi, the court reviewed a magistrate judge’s January 30, 2023 report and recommendation. No objections were filed, so the court reviewed the recommendation for clear error and found none.
The court adopted the report and recommendation. It granted in part and denied in part Ashley A.’s motion for summary judgment, denied Kilolo Kijakazi’s motion for summary judgment, and remanded the matter to the Social Security Administration for further proceedings.
Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright entered the order on February 28, 2023. The order does not describe the specific reasons for the recommended remand or identify which parts of Ashley A.’s motion were granted or denied.
The detailed version
- Ashley A. v. Kijakazi · No. 0:22-cv-00280
- Wilhelmina Wright
- Feb. 28, 2023
Background
The case concerns Ashley A.’s Social Security matter. The court considered a January 30, 2023 report and recommendation prepared by United States Magistrate Judge Tony N. Leung. No party filed objections.
Court’s Review
Because no timely objections were filed, the court reviewed the report and recommendation for clear error under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 72(b). The court stated that it found no clear error after reviewing the report and recommendation and the case record.
Rulings
The court adopted the report and recommendation. Ashley A.’s motion for summary judgment—a request for judgment based on the record without a trial—was granted in part and denied in part. Kilolo Kijakazi’s motion for summary judgment was denied.
The court remanded the matter to the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration for further proceedings under 42 U.S.C. § 405(g), sentence four. The opinion does not specify the particular issues requiring further proceedings or explain which portions of Ashley A.’s motion were granted or denied.
Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright entered the order and directed that judgment be entered accordingly.
Read the full 2-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.