Jernigan v. Jernigan et al

Filing 40

ORDER entered ADOPTING MEMORANDUM AND RECOMMENDATIONS re: 30 MOTION to Dismiss, 38 Memorandum and Recommendations, 31 MOTION to Oppose Dismissal. Order of Dismissal to be entered. (Signed by Judge Lee H Rosenthal) Parties notified.(leddins, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
HOUSTON DIVISION
LATOYA JERNIGAN,
Plaintiff,
v.
AMBER JERNIGAN, et al.,
Defendants.

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CIVIL ACTION NO. 10-2744

ORDER ADOPTING MEMORANDUM AND RECOMMENDATION
This court has reviewed the Memorandum and Recommendation of the United States
Magistrate Judge signed on August 30, 2011, and has made a determination of the Magistrate
Judge’s recommended disposition. Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b); 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C); United States
v. Wilson, 864 F.2d 1219, 1221 (5th Cir. 1989). No objections have been filed. This court adopts
the Memorandum and Recommendation as this court’s Memorandum and Order. This court finds
and concludes that the motion to dismiss should be granted and that the dismissal should be with
prejudice. The dismissal with prejudice reflects a determination that further amendment would be
futile. This case is a duplicative action, that includes the same constitutional and state law claims
the plaintiff previously raised in Ozene v. TDFPS, Civil Action No. 10cv245 (S.D. Tex. 2010). In
that case, as in the present case, the plaintiff alleged that Amber Jernigan submitted false statements
to CPS that led to the wrongful removal of the plaintiff’s daughter, T.J., Latasha Allen and Daisy
Clark. That case was dismissed for failure to state a claim within the court’s subject matter
jurisdiction. The Fifth Circuit affirmed the dismissal. Ozene v. Tex. Dep’t of Family Protective

Servs., 405 F. App’x 922 (5th Cir. 2010). This case is appropriately dismissed under 28 U.S.C. §
1915. The other reasons for the magistrate judge’s decision are further support for dismissal.
This case is dismissed, with prejudice. An order of dismissal is separately entered.

SIGNED on September 19, 2011, at Houston, Texas.
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Lee H. Rosenthal
United States District Judge

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