MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
KOPF, District Judge.
When the Appeals Council in a social security case considers newly submitted evidence not considered by the administrative law judge (ALJ), the reviewing court is presented with "a peculiar task" because the court "must speculate to some extent on how the administrative law judge would have weighed the newly submitted reports if they had been available for the original hearing." Riley v. Shalala,
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