Williams v. Commissioner of Social Security
- Analisa Torres
- 1:19-cv-10443
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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Williams v. Commissioner of Social Security: Judge Torres remanded the case after adopting the recommendation, granting Williams’s motion and denying the Commissioner’s motion.
Adera Williams and the Commissioner of Social Security; the matter returns to the administrative law judge for further proceedings.
What happened
In Williams v. Commissioner of Social Security, the court considered a report and recommendation concerning the parties’ motions in this Social Security case.
No party objected to the report and recommendation. The court reviewed it for clear error and found none, but the opinion does not describe the report’s underlying reasoning.
Judge Analisa Torres adopted the report and recommendation in full, denied the Commissioner’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, granted Williams’s motion, and remanded the matter to the administrative law judge for further proceedings. The court directed the Clerk to terminate the motions and close the case.
The detailed version
- Williams v. Commissioner of Social Security · No. 1:19-cv-10443
- Analisa Torres
- Dec. 14, 2020
Background
Adera Williams and the Commissioner of Social Security filed competing motions. The opinion does not state the underlying facts or explain the arguments presented in those motions.
Report and Recommendation
The court had received a report and recommendation from Magistrate Judge James L. Cott. Because no objections were filed, Judge Analisa Torres reviewed the report for clear error, meaning an obvious mistake, and found none. The court adopted the report and recommendation in its entirety.
Ruling
The court denied the Commissioner’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, granted Williams’s motion, and remanded the matter to the administrative law judge under sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g) for further proceedings consistent with the report and recommendation. The Clerk of Court was directed to terminate the motions listed at ECF Nos. 20 and 22 and close the case.
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