Carrol v. Sullivan

OPINION

IRVING HILL, Senior District Judge.

In this opinion, the Court considers whether it has jurisdiction to entertain and grant a motion to reopen a social security case after an earlier remand to the Secretary. The remand resulted in the plaintiff again being denied benefits. The government opposed the reopening motion claiming that the motion was untimely and, alternatively, that the Court had no further jurisdiction to reopen the prior case. In holding that jurisdiction to reopen exists, the Court finds that the earlier remand order was a “sentence four” remand, a “final judgment”, as…