Keaton v. Ken Eggleston Accounting Services et al

Filing 5

ORDER signed by Judge J.P. Stadtmueller on 11/9/2017: ADOPTING 4 Magistrate Judge David E. Jones' 10/20/2017 Report and Recommendations; DISMISSING CASE without prejudice for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction; and DENYING as moot 2 Plaintiff's Motion for Leave to Proceed Without Prepayment of the Filing Fee. (cc: all counsel, via mail to Kenneth D. Keaton)(jm)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN
KENNETH D. KEATON,

v.

Plaintiff,

KEN EGGLESTON ACCOUNTING
SERVICES, MICHELLE A. KEATON,
and LOIS M. CHRISTENSEN,

Case No. 17-CV-1404-JPS-JPS

ORDER

Defendants.
Plaintiff, proceeding pro se, filed this action on October 13, 2017.
(Docket #1). Along with his complaint, he submitted a request for leave to
proceed in forma pauperis. (Docket #2). Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915, the
assigned judge, Magistrate Judge David E. Jones, screened Plaintiff’s
complaint. (Docket #4). Magistrate Jones has filed a report and
recommendation with this Court concerning the screening, and he
recommends that the complaint be dismissed for lack of subject-matter
jurisdiction. Id. The magistrate found that Plaintiff’s claims arise, if at all,
only under state law, and that there exists no other applicable basis for this
Court’s jurisdiction. See id. at 2–3.
Plaintiff has consented to magistrate judge jurisdiction in this matter,
but Defendants have not, as they have not yet been served with the
complaint. Magistrate Jones issued his recommendation because, according
to the Court of Appeals in Coleman v. Labor & Industry Review Commission of
Wisconsin, 860 F.3d 461 (7th Cir. 2017), without consent to his jurisdiction
from all parties, to include even the unserved Defendants, he lacks
authority to finally dispose of the case.

In his recommendation, Magistrate Jones informed Plaintiff that,
pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and (C), Federal Rule of Civil Procedure
72(b)(2), and General Local Rule 72(c), Plaintiff had fourteen days to file an
objection to the recommendation. (Docket #4 at 3). That deadline has passed
and the Court has received no objection from Plaintiff. Having received no
objection thereto, and in full agreement with Magistrate Jones’ analysis and
conclusion therein, the Court will adopt the recommendation.
Accordingly,
IT IS ORDERED that Magistrate Judge David E. Jones’ October 20,
2017 Report and Recommendation (Docket #4) be and the same is hereby
ADOPTED;
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this action be and the same is
hereby DISMISSED without prejudice for lack of subject-matter
jurisdiction; and
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiff’s motion for leave to
proceed in forma pauperis (Docket #2) be and the same is hereby DENIED as
moot.
The Clerk of the Court is directed to enter judgment accordingly.
Dated at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this 9th day of November, 2017.
BY THE COURT:

____________________________________
J. P. Stadtmueller
U.S. District Judge

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