Jenkins v. Hutcheson

Filing 94

ORDER overruling 81 Objection and 93 Objection. Signed by Judge J. Randal Hall on 11/23/2015. (thb)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
STATESBORO DIVISION

ADRIAN JENKINS,

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Plaintiff,

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CIVIL ACTION NO.: 6:14-cv-81

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v.

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JOSEPH HUTCHESON,

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Defendant.

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ORDER

Before the Court are Plaintiffs Objections to the Magistrate Judge's Orders of

August 19, 2015 and October 28, 2015.

Docs. 81, 93.

After careful consideration, these

Objections are OVERRULED, and the Magistrate Judge's Orders remain the Orders of the
Court.

On August 19, 2015, the Magistrate Judge granted Defendant's request to extend the time
to file his Motion for Summary Judgment from August 13, 2015 to September 30, 2015.

Doc. 79. Defendant's request was based on a delay in the preparation of the Plaintiffs

deposition transcript. Doc. 76. Plaintiffobjects to the Magistrate Judge's finding that Defendant
established good cause for the extension of this deadline. Doc. 81.

On October 28, 2015, the Magistrate Judge issued an Order on seventeen pretrial motions

filed by Plaintiff. Doc. 92. That Order denied the majority of these Motions but granted Plaintiff
additional time to respond to the Motion for Summary Judgment and granted Plaintiffs requests

for copies of some pleadings. IdL Though Plaintiff states that he objects to each of these rulings,
he provides little in support of his objections. Doc. 93.

A district judge must consider a party's objections to a magistrate judge's order on a
pretrial matter. See 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A); Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(a). However, the district judge
may modify or set aside that order, and reconsider the pretrial matter, only "where it has been
shown that the magistrate judge's order is clearly erroneous or contrary to law." 28 U.S.C. §

636(b)(1)(A); see also Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(a). Having reviewed the Magistrate Judge's Orders and
Plaintiffs Objections, the Court finds nothing clearly erroneous or contrary to law in the
Magistrate Judge's rulings. Accordingly, Plaintiffs Objections are OVERRULED.

SO ORDERED, this ^ 3 day ofNovember, 2015.

HONOJ^AMJ^J. RAbfDAL HALL
UNITEDSTATES DISTRICT JUDGE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA