Adams

Filing 62

ORDER adopting 10 Report and Recommendations in its entirety and that all claims against Leland E Tollett, Debbie Trost, Artee Williams, Mark Graham and James D Smith should be, and hereby are, dismissed; and, that all claims under the Serbanes-Oxley Act should be, and hereby are, dismissed; and that all claims under 42 U.S.C 1981 should be, and hereby are, dismissed. Signed by Honorable Jimm Larry Hendren on April 13, 2010. (lw)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS HARRISON DIVISION DALE B. ADAMS v. TYSON FOODS, INC.,ET AL. ORDER PLAINTIFF Case No. 09-3054 DEFENDANTS N O W on this 13th day of April 2010, comes on for consideration t h e Report and Recommendation of the Magistrate Judge (document #10) filed on January 6, 2010. The Court, being well and s u f f i c i e n t l y advised, finds as follows: 1. T h e Report and Recommendation of the Magistrate Judge ( d o c u m e n t #10) was filed on January 6, 2010. 2. for an O n January 20, 2010, the Court granted plaintiff's motion extension ­ of time to the respond to the Report time and to Recommendation extending plaintiff's response F e b r u a r y 25, 2010. 3. O n February 18, 2010, the Court again granted a motion b y the plaintiff and extended the plaintiff's response time to M a r c h 11, 2010. 4. T h e plaintiff filed Plaintiff's Objections to Report of t h e Magistrate Judge on March 10, 2010 (document #44). 5. T h e plaintiff filed this employment discrimination case p u r s u a n t to Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ( A D E A ) , the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Equal Pay Act (EPA), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, and the Arkansas Civil Rights Act. 6. T h e Report and Recommendation reviews plaintiff's claims a n d recommends: * t h a t all Title VII claims against individually named d e f e n d a n t s be dismissed because the Eighth Circuit has held that s u p e r v i s o r s may not be individually held liable under Title VII; * that all ADEA claims against individually named d e f e n d a n t s be dismissed because the ADEA provides no basis for i n d i v i d u a l liability for supervisory employees; * t h a t all ADA claims against individually named defendants s h o u l d be dismissed because supervisors cannot be held liable in t h e i r individual capacity; * defendants t h a t all Equal Pay Act claims against individually named should be dismissed because the plaintiff has not a l l e g e d any of the individually named defendants were responsible f o r the pay disparity; * t h a t plaintiff's claims under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are s u b j e c t to dismissal for failure to exhaust his administrative r e m e d i e s and because no Sarbanes-Oxley Act claim is stated on the f a c t s alleged in the complaint; * t h a t all claims against individually named defendants f a i l under the Arkansas Civil Rights Act because the Act does not c o n t e m p l a t e individual liability on the part of supervisors and managers; -2- * t h a t plaintiff's claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 should be d i s m i s s e d because his race does not fall within the protection a f f o r d e d by § 1981; and, * the t h a t the claims against Artee Williams, the Director of Department of Workforce Services, are subject to Arkansas d i s m i s s a l because employees of the Arkansas Department of Workforce S e r v i c e s or the Arkansas Employment Security Division are entitled t o absolute immunity. 7. In the plaintiff's objections to the Report and R e c o m m e n d a t i o n , he: * "agrees with the report about all of the recommendations t o dismiss individual defendants from his Title VII claim, ADEA, A D A , and EPA claims." * a r g u e s that "several federal agencies have violated the l a w in order to prevent plaintiff from even learning about the S a r b a n e s - O x l e y Act." * s t a t e s that he would like to pursue a Sarbanes-Oxley Act i n a separate matter; * petition"; * " a g r e e s to remove 42 U.S.C. § 1981 out of his amended agrees to "delete the Ark. code out of his amended p e t i t i o n . . . ."; and, * " a g r e e s to remove AR Dept of Workforce Services out of h i s amended petition . . . ." -3- 8. T h e Court also notes that in plaintiff's objections, he A separate motion r e p e a t e d l y requests the appointment of counsel. f o r appointment of counsel is pending and the request will be h a n d l e d in due course. 9. T h e Court finds that, to the extent the plaintiff objects t o the Report and Recommendation, plaintiff's objections offer neither law nor fact The which Court warrant further denial finds of the the Report Report and and Recommendation. that R e c o m m e n d a t i o n should, therefore, be, and hereby is, adopted in its e n t i r e t y , and that: * all claims against James D. Smith, Leland Tollett, Mark G r a h a m , Artee Williams, the Director of the Arkansas Department of W o r k f o r c e Services, and Debbie Trost should be, and hereby are, d i s m i s s e d ; and, that * a l l claims under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act should be, and h e r e b y are, dismissed; and, that * a l l claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 should be, and hereby a r e , dismissed. IT IS SO ORDERED. /s/ Jimm Larry Hendren JIMM LARRY HENDREN U N I T E D STATES DISTRICT COURT -4-

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