Criss v. Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS No. 6:22-cv-00317 Kaelin Criss, Plaintiff, V. Acting Commissioner, Social Security Administration, Defendant.

ORDER Plaintiff Kaelin Criss filed this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 405(g) for judicial review of the commissioner’s final decision that denied plaintiff’s applications for disability benefits and supple- mental security income. Doc. 1. The case was referred to United States Magistrate Judge K. Nicole Mitchell pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b). Doc. 5.

On February 14, 2024, the magistrate judge issued a report rec- ommending that the commissioner’s decision be reversed and the matter be remanded for further administrative proceedings. Doc. 19.

The parties did not object to the report and recommendation. When no party objects to a magistrate judge’s report, the court reviews the record only for clear error. See Douglass v. United Servs. Auto. Assn, 79 F.3d 1415, 1420 (5th Cir. 1996).

Having reviewed the magistrate judge’s report, and being satis- fied that it contains no clear error, the court accepts its findings and recommendation. The court reverses the commissioner’s final ad- ministrative decision and remands the matter to the commissioner for further administrative proceedings pursuant to the fourth sen- tence of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g).

So ordered by the court on March 7, 2024. fp aclooke BARKER United States District Judge -2-