1 Melissa Newel (#148563) NEWEL LAW 2 2625 Alcatraz Ave., Suite 132 Berkeley, CA 94705 3 (510) 316-3827 4 [email protected]

5 Attorney for Plaintiff DANIEL WILLIS BELL 6

7 PHILLIP A. TALBERT United States Attorney 8 PETER K. THOMPSON Acting Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX 9 Social Security Administration CASPAR CHAN 10 Special Assistant U.S. Attorney 11 16o Spear Street, Suite 800 San Francisco, CA 94105 12 (510) 970-4810 [email protected] 13 Attorneys for Defendant 14

15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 16 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 17 18 DANIEL WILLIS BELL, No. 1:21-cv-01747 (EPG) 19

20 Plaintiff, STIPULATION OF DISMISSAL AND 21 v. ORDER DIRECTING THE CLERK OF COURT TO CLOSE THE CASE 22 COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY, (ECF No. 11) 23 Defendant. 24 25 26 27 Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(ii) which provides that a plaintiff 28 may dismiss an action without court order by filing “a stipulation of dismissal signed by all 1 parties who have appeared,” IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED BY ALL PARTIES, through their 2 undersigned attorneys, and with the approval of the Court, that Plaintiff voluntarily dismiss, with 3 prejudice, the above-referenced action. Each party agrees to bear their own attorney fees, costs, 4 and expenses associated with the action. 5 Respectfully submitted, 6 Dated: July 29, 2022 NEWEL LAW 7 By: Melissa Newel 8 Melissa Newel Attorney for Plaintiff 9 DANIEL WILLIS BELL 10

11 Dated: August 1, 2022 PHILLIP A. TALBERT 12 United States Attorney PETER K. THOMPSON 13 Acting Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX 14 Social Security Administration

15 By: Caspar Chan CASPAR CHAN 16 Special Assistant U.S. Attorney 17 Attorneys for Defendant

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28 1 ORDER 2 Based upon the stipulation (ECF No. 11) of the parties, this action has been terminated, 3] Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)GD), and has been dismissed with prejudice and with each party to bear 4 | its own attorney fees, costs, and expenses associated with the action. See Wilson v. City of San 5 | Jose,

(9th Cir. 1997). Accordingly, the Clerk of Court is directed to close this 6 action.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 8 9 | Dated: _ August 2, 2022 [spe ey □□ UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28