(SS)(PS) Slattery v. Commissioner of Social Security

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 KEVIN SLATTERY, No. 2:20-cv-0058 DB Plaintiff, v. ORDER KILOLO KIJAKAZI, Acting Commissioner of Social Security,1 15 Defendant. 17 Plaintiff is proceeding pro se in this social security action. Both parties previously consented to Magistrate Judge jurisdiction over this action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). (See ECF No. 19.) However, on March 21, 2022, plaintiff filed a request for reassignment of this action to a District Judge. (ECF No. 20.) “Under both the United States Code and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, once a civil case is referred to a magistrate judge under § 636(c), the reference can be withdrawn by the court only ‘for good cause on its own motion, or under extraordinary circumstances shown by any

1 After the filing of this action Kilolo Kijakazi was appointed Acting Commissioner of Social 26 Security and has, therefore, been substituted as the defendant. See 42 U.S.C. § 405(g) (referring to…