Adams v. Eppinger

Filing 12

Order Adopting 5 Report and Recommendation and Denying Petitioner's 4 Motion for leave to Proceed In Forma Pauperis signed by Judge James S. Gwin on 9/8/2021. (S,KM)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO
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BENNIE ADAMS,
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Petitioner,
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vs.
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WARDEN LASHANN EPPINGER, :
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Respondent.
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CASE NO. 4:21-cv-00158

OPINION AND
ORDER [Resolving
Doc. 4]

JAMES S. GWIN, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE:
On January 20, 2021, Plaintiff Bennie Adams filed a petition for Writ of
Habeas Corpus. Adams filed an in forma pauperis application.4 The Court referred the
matter to Magistrate Judge Jonathan D. Greenberg.
On

January 27, 2021, Magistrate Judge Greenberg

issued

a

Report

and

Recommendation (“R&R”) finding that Adams could pay the necessary case filing fees,
making in forma pauperis relief inappropriate.5

Objections to the R&R were due by

February 10, 2021. Plaintiff Adams filed no objections.
The Federal Magistrates Act requires a district court to conduct a de novo review only
of those portions of an R&R to which the parties have made an objection.5 Failure to timely

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28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1).

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object waives a party’s right to appeal the magistrate’s report. 6 Where a party does not object
to the R&R, a district court may adopt it without review.7
Further, this Court has examined Plaintiff Adams’ in forma pauperis application and
believes it should be denied.
Accordingly, in light of Plaintiff Adams’s decision not to object to the R&R in this
case and his application’s lack of merit, the Court ADOPTS Magistrate Judge
Greenberg’s R&R, incorporates it as if fully restated herein, and DENIES Plaintiff Adams’

in forma pauperis application.

IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: September 8, 2021

s/

James S. Gwin

JAMES S. GWIN
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140, 154 (1985); Gerth v. Warden, Allen Oakwood Corr. Inst.,
938 F.3d 821, 827 (6th Cir. 2019).
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See Thomas, 474 U.S. at 149–50.
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28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(1).

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