(SS) Petinak v. Commissioner of Social Security

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 STEPHEN SCOTT PETINAK, Case No. 1:23-cv-00957-HBK Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING PARTIES’

STIPULATED MOTION TO REMAND

v. UNDER SENTENCE FOUR OF 42 U.S.C. § 405(g), REVERSING FINAL DECISION AND MARTIN O’MALLEY, REMANDING CASE2

COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL

SECURITY, (Doc. No. 20)

Defendant. ORDER MOOTING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION

FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

17 (Doc. No. 16)

19 Pending before the Court is the parties’ joint motion to remand filed December 29, 2023. (Doc. No. 20). Plaintiff Stephen Scott Petinak and the Commissioner of Social Security agree that this case should be remanded for further administrative proceedings under sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g). (Id.). The United States Supreme Court held that the Social Security Act permits remand in 25 1 The Court has substituted Martin O’Malley, who has since been appointed the Acting Commissioner of Social Security, as the…