Brown v. Commissioner of Social Security

Filing 25

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS 24 in its entirety. The Court affirms the final decision of the Commissioner of Social Security to deny the plaintiff's application for Disability Insurance Benefits and directs the Clerk of Court to enter judgment accordingly. Signed by Judge J. Phil Gilbert on 11/4/2013. (jdh)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
KENNETH D. BROWN,
Plaintiff,
v.

Case No. 12-cv-1032-JPG-CJP

CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Acting Commissioner
of Social Security,
Defendant.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
This matter comes before the Court on the Report and Recommendation (“Report”) (Doc.
24) of Magistrate Judge Clifford J. Proud recommending that the Court affirm the final decision of
the Commissioner of Social Security to deny plaintiff Kenneth D. Brown’s application for
Disability Insurance Benefits.
The Court may accept, reject or modify, in whole or in part, the findings or
recommendations of the magistrate judge in a report and recommendation. Fed. R. Civ. P.
72(b)(3). The Court must review de novo the portions of the report to which objections are made.
Id. “If no objection or only partial objection is made, the district court judge reviews those
unobjected portions for clear error.” Johnson v. Zema Systems Corp., 170 F.3d 734, 739 (7th Cir.
1999).
The Court has received no objection to the Report. The Court has reviewed the entire file
and finds that the Report is not clearly erroneous. Accordingly, the Court hereby:


ADOPTS the Report in its entirety (Doc. 24);



AFFIRMS the final decision of the Commissioner of Social Security to deny the plaintiff’s
application for Disability Insurance Benefits; and


DIRECTS the Clerk of Court to enter judgment accordingly.

IT IS SO ORDERED.
DATED: November 4, 2013
s/J. Phil Gilbert
J. PHIL GILBERT
DISTRICT JUDGE