Owens v. Social Security Administration

Filing 22

ORDER adopting in all respects 21 proposed findings and recommended disposition. The commissioner's decision is reversed and this case is remanded pursuant to sentence four. On remand, the Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ") should car efully update the record and obtain an opinion from a treating or consultative psychiatrist or psychologist that specifically addresses the limiting effects of Ms. Owens's impairment. The clerk is directed to immediately remand this case to the ALJ along with a copy of the RD. Signed by Chief Judge Brian S. Miller on 9/16/2015. (ljb)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS
PINE BLUFF DIVISION
BRENDA LEE OWENS
v.

PLAINTIFF
CASE NO. 5:14CV00185 BSM

CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Acting Commissioner,
Social Security Administration

DEFENDANT

ORDER
The proposed findings and recommended disposition (“RD”) submitted by United
States Magistrate Judge J. Thomas Ray have been reviewed. No objections have been filed.
After careful consideration, the RD is adopted in all respects.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that:
1.

The commissioner’s decision is reversed and this case is remanded pursuant

to sentence four. See 42 U.S.C. § 405(g); Melkonyan v. Sullivan, 501 U.S. 89 (1991). On
remand, the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) should carefully update the record and obtain
an opinion from a treating or consultative psychiatrist or psychologist that specifically
addresses the limiting effects of Ms. Owens’s impairment.
2.

The clerk is directed to immediately remand this case to the ALJ along with

a copy of the RD.
DATED this 16th day of September 2015.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE