Concrete Jungle, LLC et al v. ICON Commercial Lending, Inc. et al

Filing 32

ORDER Adopting Report and Recommendation 31 ; denying pltf's motion for default judgment and to strike answer 14 ; granting deft's Motion to Set Aside default 21 . Signed by District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds. (CBet)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
SOUTHERN DIVISION

CONCRETE JUNGLE, LLC and
GREAT EXPECTATIONS, LLC,

Case No. 16-14114
Honorable Nancy G. Edmunds

Plaintiffs,
v.
ICON COMMERCIAL LENDING, INC.,
RANDALL J. FARR, and BRENT
WATSON,
Defendants.
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ORDER ADOPTING THE MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S
JUNE 28, 2017 REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION [31]
In a report and recommendation ("R & R") issued on June 28, 2017, Magistrate Judge
Mona K. Majzoub recommends that the Court (i) deny Plaintiffs' motion for a default
judgment and to strike Defendants' answer to the complaint, and (ii) grant Defendants'
motion to set aside the clerk's entry of their defaults. No objections have been filed to the
R & R, and the deadline for doing so has passed.
“[T]he failure to object to the magistrate judge’s report[] releases the Court from its
duty to independently review the matter.” Hall v. Rawal, No. 09-10933, 2012 WL 3639070,
at *1 (E.D. Mich. Aug. 24, 2012) (citation omitted). Nonetheless, having reviewed the R &
R, the parties' underlying motions, and the remainder of the record, the Court fully concurs
in the Magistrate Judge's analysis, and therefore ACCEPTS and ADOPTS the Magistrate
Judge’s R & R.

Accordingly, it is hereby ordered, for the reasons stated in the R & R, that Plaintiffs'
February 28, 2017 motion for default judgment and to strike answer [Dkt. 14] is DENIED.
It is further ordered that Defendants' May 12, 2017 motion to set aside default [Dkt. 21] is
GRANTED.
SO ORDERED.

s/Nancy G. Edmunds
Nancy G. Edmunds
United States District Judge
Dated: August 3, 2017
I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing document was served upon counsel of record
on August 3, 2017, by electronic and/or ordinary mail.
s/Carol J. Bethel
Case Manager

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