Opinion
11 Civ. 1140 (JPO)
08-16-2012
CADET FUNDING, LLC, Plaintiff, v. EUGENE HOOSER, Defendant.
MEMORANDUM AND
ORDER
J. PAUL OETKEN, District Judge:
Plaintiff Cadet Funding LLC ("Cadet"), a litigation funding entity, brought claims for breach of contract and fraud against Defendant Eugene Hooser, a former agent, asserting that he created fictitious cases for Cadet to fund and misappropriated funds. Hooser failed to respond to the Complaint, and the Court entered a default judgment against Hooser on December 14, 2011, for an amount that was to be determined by an inquest. Magistrate Judge Frank Maas subsequently issued a Report and Recommendation ("R & R"), in which he recommends that the Court should award Cadet damages in the amount of $304,982, plus prejudgment interest in the amount of $22,560. No party has filed any objections to the R & R and the time for filing such objections has passed.
This Court "may accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the findings or recommendations" of a magistrate judge. The Court reviews de novo those parts of the R & R to which objections are made and reviews the remainder for clear error. 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1); see also Fed.R.Civ.P. 72.
After reviewing Judge Maas's R & R, to which no objections were filed, this Court concludes that there is no clear error and, accordingly, adopts the R & R in its entirety. Hooser is awarded a total of $327,542.
The Clerk of the Court is directed to close the case.
SO ORDERED. Dated: New York, New York
August 16, 2012
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J. PAUL OETKEN
United States District Judge