Opinion
CA 00-0497-BH-C
December 12, 2001
JUDGMENT
In accordance with the order entered on this date, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED, and DECREED that for good cause shown before the filing of the answer this cause is remanded to the Commissioner of Social Security pursuant to sentence six of 42 U.S.C. § 405 (g). With entry of this sentence six remand, the Court "does not rule in any way as to the correctness of the administrative determination[,]" Melkonyan v. Sullivan, 501 U.S. 89, 98, 111 S.Ct. 2157, 2163, 115 L.Ed.2d 2157, 2163, 115 L.Ed.2d 78 (1991), and therefore, the plaintiff is not a prevailing party for purposes of the Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2412, Shalala v. Schaefer, 509 U.S. 292, 297-298 300-302, 113 S.Ct. 2625, 2629 2631-2632, 125 L.Ed.2d 239 (1993).