1 | BILAL A. ESSAYLI cues, vs DsinIcrcouRE United States Attorney * | DAVID M. HARRIS 5/28/25 3 Assistant United States Attorney CENTRAL oa OF CALIFORNIA 4 | Chief, Civil Division “__-_=""

CEDINA M. KIM

5 | Assistant United States Attorney 6 | Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Division

TINA L. NAICKER, CSBN 252766

7 Special Assistant United States Attorney 8 Office of Program Litigation, Office 7 Office of the General Counsel 9 Social Security Administration 10 6401 Security Boulevard Baltimore, MD 21235 Telephone: 510-970-4842 12 Email: tina.naicker@ssa.gov 13 Attorneys for Defendant 14

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

15 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 16 7 CARL HISEY, No. 5:24-cv-02655-JLS-PVC 18 Plaintiff, JUDGMENT OF y REMAND 19 20 | FRANK BISIGNANO, 21 | Commissioner of Social Security, 22 Defendant. 23 24 25 26 27 28

1 The Court, having approved the parties’ Stipulation to Voluntary Remand 2 | Pursuant to Sentence Four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g) and to Entry of Judgment 3 | (“Stipulation to Remand”) lodged concurrent with the lodging of the within 4 | Judgment of Remand, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND 5 | DECREED that the above-captioned action is remanded to the Commissioner of 6 | Social Security for further proceedings consistent with the Stipulation to Remand.! 7 8 fu □□ 9 | DATED: May 28, 2025

HON. PEDRO V. CASTILLO

10 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

'1 Tn Bastidas v. Chappell, 791 F.3d 1155 (9th Cir. 2015), the Ninth Circuit held that the magistrate judge had the authority to grant the petitioner’s request to dismiss two unexhausted claims in his habeas petition without the approval of a district judge, as the magistrate judge’s order was simply “doing what [the] habeas petitioner has asked.” Id. at 1165. While Bastidas is not entirely on point, the stipulation for remand and entry of judgment here is jointly made by the