HICA Education Loan Corporation v. Perkins

Filing 20

ORDER ACCEPTING 19 MAGISTRATE JUDGE'S RECOMMENDATION. Plaintiff's 14 Motion for Award of Attorneys' Fees and Costs is granted in part and denied in part. Plaintiff is awarded attorney's fees in the amount of $2,050.00 and costs in the amount of $373.80. By Judge Philip A. Brimmer on 10/16/12.(mnfsl, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO
Judge Philip A. Brimmer
Civil Action No. 12-cv-00214-PAB-KLM
HICA EDUCATION LOAN CORPORATION,
Plaintiff,
v.
DANIEL R. PERKINS,
Defendant.
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ORDER ACCEPTING MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S RECOMMENDATION
_____________________________________________________________________
This matter is before the Court on the Recommendation of United States
Magistrate Judge Kristen L. Mix filed on September 20, 2012 [Docket No. 19]. The
Recommendation states that objections to the Recommendation must be filed within
fourteen days after its service on the parties. See 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C). The
Recommendation was served on September 20, 2012. No party has objected to the
Recommendation.
In the absence of an objection, the district court may review a magistrate judge’s
recommendation under any standard it deems appropriate. See Summers v. Utah, 927
F.2d 1165, 1167 (10th Cir. 1991); see also Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140, 150 (1985)
(“[i]t does not appear that Congress intended to require district court review of a
magistrate’s factual or legal conclusions, under a de novo or any other standard, when
neither party objects to those findings”). In this matter, the Court has reviewed the

Recommendation to satisfy itself that there is “no clear error on the face of the record.”1
Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b), Advisory Committee Notes. Based on this review, the Court has
concluded that the Recommendation is a correct application of the facts and the law.
Accordingly, it is
ORDERED as follows:
1. The Recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge [Docket No. 19] is
ACCEPTED.
2. Plaintiff’s Motion for Award of Attorneys’ Fees and Costs [Docket No. 14] is
GRANTED in part and denied in part.
3. Plaintiff is awarded attorney’s fees in the amount of $2,050.00 and costs in
the amount of $373.80.

DATED October 16, 2012.
BY THE COURT:

s/Philip A. Brimmer
PHILIP A. BRIMMER
United States District Judge

1

This standard of review is something less than a “clearly erroneous or contrary
to law” standard of review, Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(a), which in turn is less than a de novo
review. Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b).
2