Fernandez v. Baker et al

Filing 392

AMENDED ORDER ACCEPTING AND ADOPTING AMENDED REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF MAGISTRATE JUDGE VALERIE P. COOKE ECF No. 387 in its entirety; ECF No. 342 Defendants' motion for summary judgment is granted in part and denied in part; ECF No. 370 Defendants' motion to seal certain exhibits is granted. Signed by Judge Miranda M. Du on 2/21/2018. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - KW)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 8 *** 9 KEVIN FERNANDEZ,1 Case No. 3:14-cv-00578-MMD-VPC Plaintiff, 10 v. 11 JAMES GREG COX, et al., 12 AMENDED ORDER ACCEPTING AND ADOPTING AMENDED REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF MAGISTRATE JUDGE VALERIE P. COOKE Defendants. 13 14 Before the Court is the Amended Report and Recommendation of United States 15 Magistrate Judge Valerie P. Cooke (ECF No. 387) (“R&R”) relating to defendants’ motion 16 for summary judgment (“Motion”) (ECF No. 342, 344 (sealed)). The Magistrate Judge 17 recommends granting the Motion in part and denying it in part. Plaintiff had until January 18 22, 2018, to object to the R&R. To date, no objection has been filed.2 19 This Court “may accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the findings or 20 recommendations made by the magistrate judge.” 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). Where a party 21 timely objects to a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation, then the court is 22 required to “make a de novo determination of those portions of the [report and 23 recommendation] to which objection is made.” 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). Where a party fails 24 to object, however, the court is not required to conduct “any review at all . . . of any issue 25 26 27 28 previous Order (ECF No. 388) incorrectly reflected Plaintiff’s name as Kevin Hernandez. This order corrects that error. 2Plaintiff had objected to the original Report and Recommendation, asking the Magistrate Judge to correct an apparent clerical error. (ECF No. 385.) The R&R was amended to correct the clerical error. (ECF No. 387 at 1 n. 1.) 1The 1 that is not the subject of an objection.” Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140, 149 (1985). 2 Indeed, the Ninth Circuit has recognized that a district court is not required to review a 3 magistrate judge’s report and recommendation where no objections have been filed. See 4 United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114 (9th Cir. 2003) (disregarding the standard 5 of review employed by the district court when reviewing a report and recommendation to 6 which no objections were made); see also Schmidt v. Johnstone, 263 F. Supp. 2d 1219, 7 1226 (D. Ariz. 2003) (reading the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Reyna-Tapia as adopting the 8 view that district courts are not required to review “any issue that is not the subject of an 9 objection.”). Thus, if there is no objection to a magistrate judge’s recommendation, then 10 the court may accept the recommendation without review. See, e.g., Johnstone, 263 F. 11 Supp. 2d at 1226 (accepting, without review, a magistrate judge’s recommendation to 12 which no objection was filed). 13 Nevertheless, this Court finds it appropriate to engage in a de novo review to 14 determine whether to adopt Magistrate Judge Cooke’s R&R. The Magistrate Judge 15 recommends granting Defendants’ Motion as to Plaintiff’s state law claims against 16 Defendants in their official capacity and denying as to Plaintiff’s remaining claims. Upon 17 reviewing the R&R and underlying briefs, this Court finds good cause to adopt the 18 Magistrate Judge’s R&R in full. It 19 is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the Report and 20 Recommendation of Magistrate Judge Valerie P. Cooke (ECF No. 387) is accepted and 21 adopted in its entirety. 22 It is ordered Defendants’ motion for summary judgment (ECF No. 342) is granted 23 as to Plaintiff’s state law claims against Defendants in their official capacity, including 24 any claims where Plaintiff seeks to hold the State of Nevada or the Nevada Department 25 of Corrections liable for Defendants’ alleged conduct. It is further ordered that Defendants’ motion for summary judgment (ECF No. 342) 26 27 is denied as to Plaintiff’s remaining claims. 28 /// 2 1 2 3 It is further ordered that Defendants’ motion to seal certain exhibits containing Plaintiff’s medical records (ECF No. 370) is granted. DATED THIS 21st day of February 2018. 4 5 MIRANDA M. DU UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3

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