Kenta v. Aurora, City of et al

Filing 56

ORDER. The Recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge 48 filed 05/27/2009, is APPROVED AND ADOPTED. The defendants Motion To Dismiss for Failure To Prosecute 43 filed 05/06/2009 is GRANTED. Under FED. R. CIV. P. 41(b), this case is DISMISSE D with prejudice. JUDGMENT SHALL ENTER in favor of each defendant named and against the plaintiff. Each defendant is AWARDED his, her, or its costs, to be taxed by the Clerk of the Court under Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(d)(1) and D.C.COLO.LCivR 54.1. By Judge Robert E. Blackburn on 07/14/2009.(sah, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Judge Robert E. Blackburn Civil Case No. 08-cv-00968-REB-BNB ALLEN J. KENTA, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF AURORA, "GANG UNIT" AURORA POLICE DEPT., "CHIEF OF POLICE" DANIEL OATES, "GANG UNIT OFFICER" DAVE GALLEGOS, "POLICE OFFICER" SILVERMAN, "OFFICER" CRAIG MORGAN, "OFFICER" SEAN PASCAL, "OFFICER JOHN BORQUEZ, and OTHER UNKNOWN AURORA POLICE OFFICERS, Defendants. ORDER ADOPTING RECOMMENDATION OF UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE Blackburn, J. This matter is before me on the following: (1) the defendants' Motion To Dismiss for Failure To Prosecute [#43]1 filed May 6, 2009; and (2) the Recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge [#48] filed May 27, 2009. I approve and adopt the recommendation and I grant the motion to dismiss. As detailed and documented in the magistrate judge's recommendation, the plaintiff failed to respond to the defendants' discovery requests and failed to respond to

"[#43]" is an example of the convention I use to identify the docket number assigned to a specific paper by the court's electronic case filing and management system (CM/ECF). I use this convention throughout this order.

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the defendants' motion to compel and motion to dismiss. Since April of this year, court orders mailed to the plaintiff at his address of record consistently have been returned as undeliverable. A copy of the magistrate judge's recommendation was mailed to the
plaintiff at his address of record, but that mail was returned to the court as undeliverable, see [#49]. The plaintiff has not filed a notice of change of address with the court.

Because the plaintiff is proceeding pro se, I have construed his pleadings more liberally and held them to a less stringent standard than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers. See Erickson v. Pardus, 551 U.S. 89, ___, 127 S. Ct. 2197, 2200 (2007); Andrews v. Heaton, 483 F.3d 1070, 1076 (10th Cir. 2007); Hall v. Bellmon, 935 F.2d 1106, 1110 (10th Cir. 1991). No party has filed an objection to the magistrate judge's
recommendation [#48]. Absent objections to the recommendation, I am required to review the recommendation only for plain error. See Morales-Fernandez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service, 418 F.3d 1116, 1122 (10th Cir. 2005). The recommendation is detailed and well-reasoned. Finding no error, much less plain error, in the magistrate

judge's reasoning and recommended dispositions, I find and conclude that the arguments advanced, authorities cited, and findings of fact, conclusions of law, and recommendations proposed by the magistrate judge should be approved and adopted.

THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED as follows: 1. That the Recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge [#48] filed May 27, 2009, is APPROVED AND ADOPTED as an order of this court; 2. That the defendants' Motion To Dismiss for Failure To Prosecute [#43] filed May 6, 2009 is GRANTED; 3. That under FED. R. CIV. P. 41(b), this case is DISMISSED with prejudice; 4. That JUDGMENT SHALL ENTER in favor of each defendant named in the 2

plaintiff's Amended Complaint [#4], filed June 4, 2008, and against the plaintiff; and 12. That each defendant is AWARDED his, her, or its costs, to be taxed by the Clerk of the Court under Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(d)(1) and D.C.COLO.LCivR 54.1. Dated July 14, 2009, at Denver, Colorado. BY THE COURT:

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