Opinion
6:19-cv-01137-MK
10-18-2022
ROBERT BURTON BETTELYOUN, Petitioner, v. BRANDON KELLY, Respondent.
ORDER
ANN AIKEN, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Magistrate Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai has filed a Findings and Recommendation (“F&R”) recommending that the Amended Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, ECF No. 24, be denied. ECF No. 87. Under the Federal Magistrates Act, the Court may “accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the findings or recommendations made by the magistrate judge.” 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). If a party files objections to a magistrate judge's findings and recommendations, “the court shall make a de novo determination of those portions of the report or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which objection is made.” Id.; Fed.R.Civ.P. 72(b)(3).
For those portions of a magistrate judge's findings and recommendations to which neither party has objected, the Act does not prescribe any standard of review. See Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140, 152 (1985) (“There is no indication that Congress, in enacting [the Act], intended to require a district judge to review a magistrate's report to which no objections are filed.”). Although no review is required in the absence of objections, the Magistrates Act “does not preclude further review by the district judge[] sua sponte . . . under a de novo or any other standard.” Id. at 154. The Advisory Committee Notes to Fed.R.Civ.P. 72(b) recommend that “[w]hen no timely objection is filed,” the court should review the recommendation for “clear error on the face of the record.”
In this case, Petitioner has filed Objections, ECF No. 99, and Respondent has filed a Response, ECF No. 100. The Court has reviewed the F&R, the Objections, the Response, and the file of the case and finds no error.
The F&R is therefore ADOPTED and the Amended Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, ECF No. 24, is DENIED and this case is DISMISSED with prejudice. The Court declines to issue a certificate of appealability because Petitioner has not made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2).
It Is So Ordered.