Coffield v. United States et al

Filing 9

ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS re 6 Report and Recommendations. The Court dismisses the Plaintiff's Complaint (ECF No. 1 ). The Court directs the Clerk to close this case. Signed by Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr on 8/18/2017. (mc) NOTICE: If there are sealed documents in this case, they may be unsealed after 1 year or as directed by Court Order, unless they have been designated to be permanently sealed. See Local Rule 5.4 and Administrative Order 2014-69.

United States District Court
for the
Southern District of Florida
Benjamin Marice Coffield,
Plaintiff,
v.
Broward County Main Jail, and
others, Defendants.

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Order Adopting Magistrate Judge’s Report And Recommendation
This case was referred to United States Magistrate Judge Patrick A. White,
consistent with Administrative Order 2003-19 of this Court, for a ruling on all
pre-trial, nondispositive matters and for a Report and Recommendation on any
dispositive matters. On July 20, 2017, Judge White issued a Report,
recommending that, upon initial screening in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 1915,
the Court dismiss the Plaintiff’s civil rights case. (Report of Magistrate, ECF No.
6.) The Plaintiff has not filed his objections to the Report, and the time to do so
has passed.
A district-court judge need conduct a de novo review of only “those portions
of the report or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which
objection is made.” 28 U.S.C. § 636. So when no objections are made, a report
may be adopted in full without conducting de novo review. Id. The Court has
considered Judge White’s Report, the record, and the relevant legal authorities.
The Court finds Judge White’s Report and Recommendation cogent and
compelling. The Plaintiff claims that the Broward County Main Jail deprived him
of his civil rights under the Due Process Cause of the Fourteenth Amendment by
placing him in a four-week, twenty-three hours a day, administrative segregated
confinement. As alleged, such confinement, which is not “atypical and [does not
create a] significant hardship . . . in relation to the ordinary conditions of prison
life[,]” does not violate the Plaintiff’s due process rights. Al-Amin v. Donald, 165
Fed. App’x 733, 738 (11th Cir. 2006).
Accordingly, the Court affirms and adopts Judge White’s Report and
Recommendation (ECF No. 6). The Court dismisses the Plaintiff’s Complaint
(ECF No. 1).The Court notes that it would reach the same conclusion under de
novo review because the Court agrees with Judge White’s reasoning. Finally, the
Court directs the Clerk to close this case.
Done and ordered, at Miami, Florida, on August 18, 2017.
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Robert N. Scola, Jr.
United States District Judge