UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY
GENERAL ORDER NO. 2018-02
INRE: SOCIAL SECURITY CASE ASSIGNMENTS
Pursuant to the Local Rule 40. l (a), all cases filed as of this date in which a plaintiff seeks
review, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §405(g), of a decision by the Commissioner of Social Security,
shall be assigned to a United States Magistrate Judge in the following percentages:
LOUISVILLE SOCIAL SECURITY CASES
Each Louisville Magistrate Judge = 50%
BOWLING GREEN SOCIAL SECURITY CASES
The Paducah and Bowling Green Magistrate Judges shall randomly receive new case
assignments from Bowling Green in such proportions as are necessary to ensure that they receive
a roughly equal distribution of Social Security Case assignments district-wide.
PADUCAH SOCIAL SECURITY CASES
Paducah Magistrate Judge = I 00%
OWENSBORO SOCIAL SECURITY CASES
Bowling Green Magistrate Judge = 100%
The United States has already indicated its general consent to Magistrate Judge
j urisdiction in cases of this nature, subject to reserved rights to withdraw the consent in a given
case and to withdraw its general consent. Promptly after the filing of all such cases, the Clerk
shall direct a Notice of Social Security Case Assignment to all parties:
(a) Identifying the magistrate judge to whom the case has been assigned;
(b) Providing basic information concerning consent references to Magistrate Judges ;
(c) Confirming that any withdrawal of consent by the United States must be filed no
later than the date the United States files its answer to the complaint;
(d) Notifying plaintiffs counsel, or plaintiff if he or she is proceeding pro se, of
plaintiffs right to consent to magistrate judge jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C.
§636(c);
(e) Providing a consent form for plaintiff to complete and advising plaintiff that the
executed form must be received by the Clerk within 21 days of the date of the
Notice; and ·
(f) Advising the parties as to the court's procedure in the absence of consent.
If plaintiff timely consents, and if the United States does not timely withdraw consent, the
case shall be deemed assigned to the magistrate judge without the necessity of an order of
reference. In the event that the plaintiff does not timely consent, or if the United States timely
withdraws its consent, the Clerk shall reassign the case to a U.S. District Judge as provided in the
court's general order governing civil case assignments. Such reassigned cases shall be referred
to the same Magistrate Judge to whom the case was originally assigned for all pretrial, non-
dispositive matters and for findings of fact, conclusions, and recommendations for disposition.
This General Order supersedes and vacates General Order 2014-17.
IT IS SO ORDERED this c}?/J day of April, 2018 .
ENTERED
