White v. Baca et al

Filing 65

ORDER accepting and adopting the Report and Recommendations of Magistrate Judge William G. Cobb ECF No. 50 ; Plaintiff's motion for preliminary injunction ECF No. 23 is denied. Signed by Judge Miranda M. Du on 10/23/2017. (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 HOWARD LEE WHITE, Case No. 3:15-cv-00573-MMD-WGC Plaintiff, 10 v. 11 ISIDRO BACA, et al., ORDER ACCEPTING AND ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF MAGISTRATE JUDGE WILLIAM G. COBB 12 Defendants. 13 14 Before the Court is the Report and Recommendation of United States Magistrate 15 Judge William G. Cobb (ECF No. 50) (“R&R”) relating to Plaintiff’s Motion for a 16 Preliminary Injunction (“Motion”) (ECF No. 23). Plaintiff had until September 13, 2017, to 17 object to the R&R. (ECF No. 50.) To date, no objection to the R&R has been filed. 18 This Court “may accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the findings or 19 recommendations made by the magistrate judge.” 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). Where a party 20 timely objects to a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation, then the court is 21 required to “make a de novo determination of those portions of the [report and 22 recommendation] to which objection is made.” 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). Where a party fails 23 to object, however, the court is not required to conduct “any review at all . . . of any issue 24 that is not the subject of an objection.” Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140, 149 (1985). 25 Indeed, the Ninth Circuit has recognized that a district court is not required to review a 26 magistrate judge’s report and recommendation where no objections have been filed. See 27 United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114 (9th Cir. 2003) (disregarding the standard 28 of review employed by the district court when reviewing a report and recommendation to 1 which no objections were made); see also Schmidt v. Johnstone, 263 F. Supp. 2d 1219, 2 1226 (D. Ariz. 2003) (reading the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Reyna-Tapia as adopting the 3 view that district courts are not required to review “any issue that is not the subject of an 4 objection.”). Thus, if there is no objection to a magistrate judge’s recommendation, then 5 the court may accept the recommendation without review. See, e.g., Johnstone, 263 F. 6 Supp. 2d at 1226 (accepting, without review, a magistrate judge’s recommendation to 7 which no objection was filed). 8 Nevertheless, this Court finds it appropriate to engage in a de novo review to 9 determine whether to adopt Magistrate Judge Cobb’s R&R. The Magistrate Judge 10 recommends denying Plaintiff’s. Upon reviewing the R&R and the briefs relating to 11 Plaintiff’s Motion, this Court agrees with the Magistrate Judge and therefore adopts the 12 R&R in full. 13 It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the Report and 14 Recommendation of Magistrate Judge William G. Cobb (ECF No. 50) is accepted and 15 adopted in its entirety. Plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction (ECF No. 23) is denied. 16 DATED THIS 23rd day of October 2017. 17 18 19 MIRANDA M. DU UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2

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