Baskin v. Social Security Administration

Filing 20

ORDER: The Magistrate Judge's 19 Report and Recommendation is adopted by this Court. Pltf's 15 Motion for Judgment on the Administrative Record is GRANTED to the extent that the case is REMANDED to the Administrative Law Judge. This case is DISMISSED. Signed by Senior Judge Thomas Wiseman on 4/8/13. (DOCKET TEXT SUMMARY ONLY-ATTORNEYS MUST OPEN THE PDF AND READ THE ORDER.)(rd)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE
NASHVILLE DIVISION

WILLIAM R. BASKIN,

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v.
CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Acting Commissioner of
Social Security.1

3:11-cv-0948

ORDER
Before the Court is the Report and Recommendation of Magistrate Judge Griffin, Document #19, in
which she recommends the Plaintiff’s Motion for Judgment on the Administrative Record be granted to the
extent that the case should be remanded to the Administrative Law Judge. No objections have been filed.
The Court has read and considered the Report and finds the same to be correct in fact and law. The
Report and Recommendation is adopted by this Court.
For the reasons set forth in the Report and Recommendation, the Plaintiff’s Motion for Judgment on
the Administrative Record, Document #15, is GRANTED to the extent that the case should be REMANDED
for the Administrative Law Judge to: (1) clarify and explain in greater detail the weight he gives the
state medical sources and (2) consider and explain whether he finds support for the specific
limitations identified by the state medical sources and to the extent the Administrative Law Judge
finds these limitations supported by the record, he should incorporate them into the Plaintiff’s RFC
assessment. This case is DISMISSED.
It is so ORDERED.

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Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr.
Senior United States Distrct Judge

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Carolyn W. Colvin became the Acting Commissioner of Social Security on February 14, 2013.
Pursuant to Rule 25(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Carolyn W. Colvin is substituted for former
Commissioner Michael J. Astrue as the defendant in this suit.