Hall v. Pandya et al

Filing 50

ORDER Adopting 49 Report and Recommendation, Denying Plaintiff's 33 Motion for Enforcement of Rule 23, Granting Defendant Pandya's 43 Motion for Summary Judgment, and Denying Leave to Appeal In Forma Pauperis. Signed by District Judge Thomas L. Ludington. (Sian, M)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
NORTHERN DIVISION
MATTHEW HALL,
Plaintiff,
v

Case No. 14-cv-12022
Honorable Thomas L. Ludington
Magistrate Judge Mona K. Majzoub

HARESH PANDYA, et al.,
Defendant.
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ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION, DENYING PLAINTIFF’S
MOTION FOR ENFORCEMENT OF RULE 23, GRANTING DEFENDANT PANDYA’S
MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT, DISMISSING PLAINTIFF’S COMPLAINT,
AND DENYING LEAVE TO APPEAL IN FORMA PAUPERIS
Plaintiff Matthew Hall, a prisoner, filed this pro se civil rights action on May 20, 2014,
pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that Defendants Haresh Pandya and Corizon Health, Inc.
were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs in violation of the Eighth Amendment. ECF
No. 1. Defendant Corizon Health filed a motion for summary judgment on February 23, 2015,
which was granted on August 3, 2015. ECF Nos. 29, 25, 48.
On March 3, 2015 Plaintiff Hall filed a motion for enforcement of Federal Rule of
Appellate Procedure 23. ECF No. 33. Subsequently on June 24, 2015, Defendant Pandya filed a
motion for summary judgment. ECF No. 43. Plaintiff Hall did not file a response to Defendant
Pandya’s motion for summary judgment.
On December 3, 2015, Magistrate Judge Mona K. Majzoub issued a report
recommending that Defendant Pandya’s motion for summary judgment be granted. ECF No. 49.
Judge Majzoub reasoned that Plaintiff Hall had not shown that Defendant Pandya had been
deliberately indifferent to his serious medical need, and that Plaintiff Hall’s claims amounted to

mere disagreement with Defendant Pandya’s medical judgment.

Judge Majzoub also

recommended that Plaintiff Hall’s motion for enforcement of Rule 23 be denied because the rule
is inapplicable in prisoner civil rights complaints filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. ECF No. 49.
She therefore recommended dismissing Plaintiff’s complaint in its entirety.
Although Magistrate Judge Majzoub’s report explicitly stated that the parties to this
action could object to and seek review of the recommendation within fourteen days of service of
the report, neither Plaintiff nor Defendant filed any objections.

The election not to file

objections to the Magistrate Judge’s report releases the Court from its duty to independently
review the record. Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140, 149 (1985). The failure to file objections to the
report and recommendation waives any further right to appeal.
Accordingly, it is ORDERED that the magistrate judge’s report and recommendation,
ECF No. 49, is ADOPTED.
It is further ORDERED that Plaintiff Matthew Hall’s motion for enforcement of Rule 23,
ECF No. 33, is DENIED.
It is further ORDERED that Defendant Haresh Pandya’s motion for summary judgment,
ECF No. 43, is GRANTED.
It is further ORDERED that Plaintiff Matthew Hall’s complaint, ECF No. 1, is
DISMISSED with prejudice.
It is further ORDERED that permission to proceed in forma pauperis on appeal is
DENIED. An appeal would be frivolous and could not be taken in good faith. See 28 U.S.C.
§1915 (a)(3); Coppedge v. United States, 369 U.S. 438, 445 (1962).

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s/Thomas L. Ludington
THOMAS L. LUDINGTON
United States District Judge
Dated: January 5, 2016

PROOF OF SERVICE
The undersigned certifies that a copy of the foregoing order was served
upon each attorney or party of record herein by electronic means or first
class U.S. mail on January 5, 2016.
s/Michael A. Sian
MICHAEL A. SIAN, Case Manager

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