Thomas

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 Keith THOMAS, Case No.: 25-cv-2407-AGS-KSC

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ORDER DISMISSING AMENDED

Plaintiff, 5 COMPLAINT WITHOUT LEAVE v. TO AMEND AND DENYING 6

MOTION TO RECONSIDER (ECF 5)

7 John DOE, 8 Defendant. 9 The Court must screen plaintiff Keith Thomas’s amended complaint against an 10 unknown Social Security Administration supervisor, arising from an alleged Supplemental 11 Security Income overpayment notice. (See ECF 3, at 2; ECF 4.) The original complaint 12 was dismissed because courts “may only review a ‘final decision of the Commissioner of 13 Social Security made after a hearing.’” (ECF 3, at 2 (quoting 42 U.S.C. § 405(g).) And 14 Thomas did not allege that he had made it through Social Security’s required “four-step 15 process” or that he had received a final decision such that he could “obtain review from a 16 federal court.” (Id. (quoting Smith v. Berryhill, 587 U.S. 471, 475–76 (2019)).) In fact, his 17 initial complaint’s attachments made it appear that he…