Boyd et al v. Chase Bank

Filing 5

ORDER that 3 Report and Recommendation of Magistrate Judge is ADOPTED in its entirety. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the action be dismissed without prejudice. Clerk of Court shall close the case. Signed by Judge James C. Mahan on 6/11/13. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - EDS)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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DISTRICT OF NEVADA
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ALLEN BOYD, et al.,

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2:13-CV-331 JCM (PAL)

Plaintiff(s),
v.
CHASE BANK,

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Defendant(s).

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ORDER

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Presently before the court is the report and recommendation of Magistrate Judge Leen. (Doc.

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# 3). No objections have been filed even though the deadline date for filing objections has expired.

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Plaintiffs Nikci and Allen Boyd filed an application to proceed in forma pauperis. (Doc. #

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1). The magistrate judge denied the application because the application was incomplete, each

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plaintiff needed to fill out his or her own application, and because one of the plaintiffs indicated they

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were receiving disability but failed to provide the source or amount of disability. (Doc. # 2). The

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magistrate judge instructed the plaintiffs to correct their deficiencies. (Id.). The magistrate judge

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now recommends dismissal without prejudice. (Doc. # 3).

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This court “may accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the findings or

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recommendations made by the magistrate.” 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). Where a party timely objects

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to a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation, then the court is required to “make a de novo

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determination of those portions of the [report and recommendation] to which objection is made.”

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James C. Mahan
U.S. District Judge

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28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1).

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Where a party fails to object, however, the court is not required to conduct “any review at all

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. . . of any issue that is not the subject of an objection.” Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140, 149 (1985).

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Indeed, the Ninth Circuit has recognized that a district court is not required to review a magistrate

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judge’s report and recommendation where no objections have been filed. See United States v.

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Reyna–Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114 (9th Cir. 2003) (disregarding the standard of review employed by the

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district court when reviewing a report and recommendation to which no objections were made); see

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also Schmidt v. Johnstone, 263 F. Supp. 2d 1219, 1226 (D. Ariz. 2003) (reading the Ninth Circuit’s

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decision in Reyna–Tapia as adopting the view that district courts are not required to review “any

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issue that is not the subject of an objection.”). Thus, if there is no objection to a magistrate judge’s

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recommendation, then this court may accept the recommendation without review. See, e.g.,

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Johnstone, 263 F. Supp. 2d at 1226 (accepting, without review, a magistrate judge’s recommendation

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to which no objection was filed).

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Nevertheless, this court finds it appropriate to engage in a de novo review to determine

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whether to adopt the recommendation of the magistrate judge. Upon reviewing the recommendation

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and underlying briefs, this court finds good cause appears to ADOPT the magistrate’s findings in

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full.

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Accordingly,

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IT IS HEREBY, ORDERED, AND DECREED that the report and recommendation of

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Magistrate Judge Leen (doc. # 3) be, and the same hereby, is ADOPTED in its entirety.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the action be dismissed without prejudice. The clerk of
the court shall close the case.
DATED June 11, 2013.

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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James C. Mahan
U.S. District Judge

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