Inman v. Zanders et al

Filing 24

ORDER ADOPTING 18 Report and Recommendations, DENYING AS MOOT 13 Motion for Screening, and DISMISSING Plaintiff's legal mail, access to the courts, and retaliatory transfer claims against Defendants Zanders and Sanders, and all claims against Defendants Homer Bryson and Department of Corrections. Signed by Judge Dudley H. Bowen on 11/28/2016. (maa)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTy 3 Dis^^cFcOURT
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FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA

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DUBLIN DIVISION

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Plaintiff,
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SAM ZANDERS, Warden, Dodge State
Prison; TINA SANDERS, Deputy Warden
of Care & Treatment, Dodge Slate Prison;
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS;
and HOMER BRYSON,

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Defendants.

CV 315-095

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ORDER

After a careful, de novo review of the file, the Court concurs with the Magistrate

Judge's Report and Recommendation ("R&R"), to which objections have been filed. (Doc.

no. 21.) The Magistrate Judge recommended dismissal of Plaintiffs legal mail, access to the
courts, and retaliatory transfer claims against Defendants Zanders and Sanders, and all claims

against Defendants Homer Bryson and Department of Corrections.' (See doc. no. 18.)
Nothing in Plaintiffs objections undermines the Magistrate Judge's recommendation, and
only one objection warrants further comment.

' The portion of the October 28th Report and Recommendation's conclusion section
which stated Plaintiffs equal protection claims should be dismissed was a scrivener's error (doc.
no. 18, p. 8) and did not reflect the substance of the Magistrate Judge's analysis that Plaintiff had
a reasonable opportunity to prevail on the merits of his equal protection claims regarding more
favorable treatment to Hispanic inmates in the celebration of Cinco de Mayo against Defendants
Zanders and Sanders (doc. no. 17, pp. 1-2).