Regions Bank v. Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company

Filing 152

ORDER adopting and affirming 137 Report and Recommendations of Magistrate Judge. See attached ORDER for details. Signed by Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr. on 9/20/2012. (jky)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

Case No. 11-23257-CIV-SCOLA

REGIONS BANK,
Plaintiff,
vs.
COMMONWEALTH LAND
TITLE INSURANCE CO.,
Defendant.
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ORDER ADOPTING AND AFFIRMING
MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS
THIS MATTER is before the Court upon the Report and Recommendations [ECF No. 137],
filed by Magistrate Judge Barry L. Garber on August 22, 2012. This Court referred to the Magistrate
Judge two motions for report and recommendation: Regions Bank’s Motion to Strike Defendant
Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company’s Third-Party Claim Against Freeman or,
Alternatively, to Drop Freeman as a Party [ECF No. 70]; and Third-Party Defendant Paul Freeman’s
Motion to Dismiss Third-Party Complaint [ECF No. 73].
The Magistrate Judge recommends that the Court grant the motions to strike Commonwealth’s
Count II against Freeman, as he is not a properly joined party to these proceedings. The fourteen-day
period to object to the Magistrate Judge’s recommendations has lapsed, without any objections being
filed. Upon a de novo review of the record and all pertinent authorities, the Court finds the Magistrate
Judge’s Report and Recommendations, and the rulings therein, to be wholly correct.
Accordingly,

it

is

hereby

ORDERED

and

ADJUDGED

that

the

Report

and

Recommendations [ECF No. 137] are AFFIRMED and ADOPTED in full, and shall be deemed
incorporated into this Order as if fully set forth herein.
DONE and ORDERED in chambers at Miami, Florida on September 20, 2012.

________________________________
ROBERT N. SCOLA, JR.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Copies to:
Magistrate Judge Garber
Counsel of Record