Novoa v. Baca et al
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ORDER accepting and adopting in its entirety ECF No. 36 Report and Recommendation, granting Defendants' ECF No. 18 Motion to Enforce Settlement; directing the parties within 10 days to submit stipulation and order dismissing case with prejudice. Signed by Judge Miranda M. Du on 6/5/2017. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - KR)
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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DISTRICT OF NEVADA
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GUILLERMO RENTERIA NOVOA,
Plaintiff,
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v.
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ISIDRO BACA, et al.,
Case No. 3:15-cv-00537-MMD-VPC
ORDER ACCEPTING AND ADOPTING
REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF
MAGISTRATE JUDGE
VALERIE P. COOKE
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Defendant.
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Before the Court is the Report and Recommendation of United States Magistrate
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Judge Valerie P. Cooke (ECF No. 36) (“R&R” or “Recommendation”) relating to
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Defendants’ motion to enforce settlement (ECF No. 18), which Plaintiff opposed (ECF
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Nos. 27, 29). The parties had until May 29, 2017, to object to the R&R. To date, no
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objection has been filed.
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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 judge.” 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). Where a party
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timely objects to a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation, then the court is
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required to “make a de novo determination of those portions of the [report and
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recommendation] to which objection is made.” 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). Where a party fails
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to object, however, the court is not required to conduct “any review at all . . . of any issue
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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
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magistrate judge’s report and recommendation where no objections have been filed. See
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United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114 (9th Cir. 2003) (disregarding the standard
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of review employed by the district court when reviewing a report and recommendation to
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which no objections were made); see also Schmidt v. Johnstone, 263 F. Supp. 2d 1219,
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1226 (D. Ariz. 2003) (reading the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Reyna-Tapia as adopting the
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view that district courts are not required to review “any issue that is not the subject of an
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objection.”). Thus, if there is no objection to a magistrate judge’s recommendation, then
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the court may accept the recommendation without review. See, e.g., Johnstone, 263 F.
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Supp. 2d at 1226 (accepting, without review, a magistrate judge’s recommendation to
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which no objection was filed).
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Nevertheless, this Court finds it appropriate to engage in a de novo review to
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determine whether to adopt Magistrate Judge Cooke’s R&R. The Magistrate Judge
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recommended granting Defendants’ motion to enforce settlement. Upon reviewing the
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R&R and underlying briefs, this Court finds good cause to adopt the Magistrate Judge’s
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Recommendation in full.
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It
is
therefore
ordered,
adjudged
and
decreed
that
the
Report
and
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Recommendation of Magistrate Judge Valerie P. Cooke (ECF No. 36) is accepted and
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adopted in its entirety. The Court grants Defendants’ motion to enforce settlement (ECF
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No. 18).
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It is ordered that the parties submit the stipulation and order dismissing this case
with prejudice within ten (10) days from the date of this order.
DATED THIS 5th day of June 2017.
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MIRANDA M. DU
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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