Wonders v. Crutchfield et al (MAG+)

Filing 52

ORDERED that: (1) Mr. Wonders' 50 Objection is OVERRULED; (2) the 49 Recommendation of the Magistrate Judge is ADOPTED; (3) Dfts' 42 Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED; (4) Mr. Wonders's 50 Motion to Amend the Second Amended Complaint is DENIED; and (5) this action is DISMISSED for lack of jurisdiction. Signed by Chief Judge William Keith Watkins on 6/4/2013. (wcl, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA
SOUTHERN DIVISION
MARK GERAGHTY WONDERS,

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Plaintiff,
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v.
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ANTHONY CRUTCHFIELD, Major
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General, and JAMES MUSKOPF, Colonel, )
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Defendants.
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CASE NO. 1:12-CV-514-WKW
[WO]

ORDER
On May 13, 2013, the Magistrate Judge filed a Recommendation (Doc. # 49)
that Mr. Plaintiff Mark Geraghty Wonders’s Second Amended Complaint be
dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Mr. Wonders filed an objection
(Doc. # 50) and included in that objection a motion to amend his complaint.
Defendants filed a response in opposition to Mr. Wonders’s filing. (Doc. # 51.)
Having independently reviewed the file in this case and conducted a de novo
review of those portions of the Recommendation to which objection is made, see 28
U.S.C. § 636(b), the court finds that the objection lacks merit for the reasons set forth
in the Recommendation and that subject matter jurisdiction is lacking. The court adds
that even if a basis for supplemental jurisdiction existed, the court would decline to
exercise such jurisdiction in this case. See 28 U.S.C. § 1367(c)(3). Furthermore, the

court finds that Mr. Wonders’s motion to amend the second amended complaint is
due to be denied on grounds of futility.
Accordingly, it is ORDERED that
(1)

Mr. Wonders’ objection (Doc. # 50) is OVERRULED;

(2)

the Recommendation of the Magistrate Judge (Doc. # 49) is ADOPTED;

(3)

Defendants’ motion to dismiss (Doc. # 42) is GRANTED;

(4)

Mr. Wonders’s motion to amend the second amended complaint (Doc.

# 50) is DENIED; and
(5)

this action is DISMISSED for lack of jurisdiction.

DONE this 4th day of June, 2013.
/s/ W. Keith Watkins
CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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