Kennedy v. Social Security Administration Commissioner

Filing 27

ORDER ADOPTING 25 Report and Recommendations. Judgment will be entered accordingly. Signed by Honorable P. K. Holmes III on January 19, 2023. (mjm)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS
FORT SMITH DIVISION
LAURA KENNEDY
v.

PLAINTIFF
No. 2:21-cv-02170

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
COMMISSIONER

DEFENDANT
ORDER

The Court has received a report and recommendation (Doc. 25) from United States
Magistrate Judge Barry A. Bryant. The Magistrate Judge recommends that the decision of the
Administrative Law Judge be reversed and remanded with directions to award Plaintiff benefits.
The Commissioner timely filed objections (Doc. 26). The Court has conducted a de novo review
of those portions of the report and recommendation to which the Commissioner has objected. 28
U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C). The Commissioner’s objections offer neither law nor fact requiring
departure from the Magistrate Judge’s findings, which otherwise contain no clear error. The report
and recommendation is ADOPTED IN ITS ENTIRETY.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the decision of the Commissioner of the Social
Security Administration to deny benefits to Plaintiff is REVERSED. This matter is REMANDED
with directions to award Plaintiff DIB or Title II benefits. Plaintiff’s past-due benefits are to be
calculated from Plaintiff's amended onset date of June 11, 2011.
Judgment will entered be accordingly.
IT IS SO ORDERED this 19th day of January, 2023.

/s/P. K. Holmes, III
P.K. HOLMES, III
U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE