McMillian v. Walsh
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ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS 5 re 1 Complaint in Mandamus filed by Corliveetho McMillian. ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE to the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Signed by Chief Judge Christopher C. Conner on 1/28/14. (pw)
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
CORLIVEETHO MCMILLIAN,
Plaintiff,
v.
WARDEN JEROME WALSH, et al.,
Defendants.
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CIVIL ACTION NO. 1:13-CV-3085
(Chief Judge Conner)
ORDER
AND NOW, this 28th day of January, 2014, upon consideration of the report and
recommendation of Chief Magistrate Judge Martin C. Carlson (Doc. 5), filed January 10,
2014, wherein the magistrate judge concludes that venue does not lie in this district and
recommends that the court transfer the matter sub judice to the District Court for the
Western District of Pennsylvania pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1406, see id. (“The district court
of a district in which is filed a case laying venue in the wrong . . . district shall dismiss,
or if it be in the interest of justice, transfer such case to any district . . . in which it could
have been brought.”), and, following an independent review of plaintiff’s complaint, the
court being in agreement with the magistrate judge that “a substantial part of the events
or omissions giving rise to the claim occurred” outside of this judicial district in Fayette
County, Pennsylvania, which falls within the venue of the District Court for the Western
District of Pennsylvania, (see Doc. 5 at 3-4), and the court further being in agreement
that transfer rather than dismissal is appropriate in order to protect plaintiff’s rights as
a pro se litigant, (see id. at 4-5), and, it further appearing that plaintiff has not objected to
the magistrate judge’s report, and that there is no clear error on the face of the record,1
see Nara v. Frank, 488 F.3d 187, 194 (3d Cir. 2007) (explaining that “failing to timely
object to [a report and recommendation] in a civil proceeding may result in forfeiture of
de novo review at the district court level”), it is hereby ORDERED that:
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The report of the magistrate judge (Doc. 5) is ADOPTED in its entirety.
2.
The plaintiff’s request for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is GRANTED.
3.
The Clerk of Court is directed to TRANSFER this matter to the United
States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania forthwith.
/S/ CHRISTOPHER C. CONNER
Christopher C. Conner, Chief Judge
United States District Court
Middle District of Pennsylvania
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When parties fail to file timely objections to a magistrate judge’s report and
recommendation, the Federal Magistrates Act does not require a district court to
review the report before accepting it. Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140, 149 (1985). As a
matter of good practice, however, the Third Circuit expects courts to “afford some
level of review to dispositive legal issues raised by the report.” Henderson v.
Carlson, 812 F.2d 874, 878 (3d Cir. 1987). The advisory committee notes to Rule
72(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure indicate that “[w]hen no timely
objection is filed, the court need only satisfy itself that there is no clear error on the
face of the record in order to accept the recommendation.” FED. R. CIV. P. 72(b),
advisory committee notes; see also Henderson, 812 F.2d at 878-79 (stating that “the
failure of a party to object to a magistrate’s legal conclusions may result in the loss
of the right to de novo review in the district court”); Tice v. Wilson, 425 F. Supp. 2d
676, 680 (W.D. Pa. 2006) (holding that the court’s review is conducted under the
“plain error” standard); Cruz v. Chater, 990 F. Supp. 375-78 (M.D. Pa. 1998) (holding
that the court’s review is limited to ascertaining whether there is “clear error on the
face of the record”); Oldrati v. Apfel, 33 F. Supp. 2d 397, 399 (E.D. Pa. 1998) (holding
that the court will review the report and recommendation for “clear error”). The
court has reviewed the magistrate judge’s report and recommendation in
accordance with this Third Circuit directive.
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