Ross v. Social Security Administration

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN

SOUTHERN DIVISION

CASSANDRA L. ROSS, 2:20-CV-12170-TGB-EAS Plaintiff, vs. ORDER TO REMAND KILOLO KIJAKAZI, ACTING

COMMISSIONER OF THE

SOCIAL SECURITY

ADMINISTRATION,

Defendant.

The Commissioner’s motion to remand is granted and this matter is remanded for further administrative proceedings. See Shalala v. Schaefer, 509 U.S. 292, 296-97 (1993); Melkonyan v. Sullivan, 501 U.S. 89, 97-98 (1991). The Appeals Council will remand the case to a different Administrative Law Judge to obtain medical expert evidence, reconsider the claimant’s residual functional capacity, obtain additional vocational evidence if warranted, offer the claimant the opportunity for a new hearing, and issue a new decision.

DATED this 10th day of August, 2021.

BY THE COURT: /s/Terrence G. Berg

TERRENCE G. BERG

United States District Judge