Heliton v. Dir., TDCJ-CID

Full title: KEITH HELITON, JR., #01619772 v. DIRECTOR, TDCJ-CID

Court: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS TYLER DIVISION

Date published: Nov 24, 2020

CIVIL ACTION NO. 6:20cv442 (E.D. Tex. Nov. 24, 2020)

Opinion

CIVIL ACTION NO. 6:20cv442

11-24-2020

KEITH HELITON, JR., #01619772 v. DIRECTOR, TDCJ-CID

JEREMY D. KERNODLE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

This action was referred to United States Magistrate Judge K. Nicole Mitchell pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636. On October 23, 2020, the Magistrate Judge issued a Report and Recommendation (Docket No. 9), recommending that the action be dismissed without prejudice for want of prosecution and failure to obey an order of the court.

This Court reviews the findings and conclusions of the Magistrate Judge de novo only if a party objects within fourteen days of service of the Report and Recommendation. 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). In conducting a de novo review, the Court examines the entire record and makes an independent assessment under the law. Douglass v. United Servs. Auto. Ass'n, 79 F.3d 1415, 1430 (5th Cir. 1996) (en banc), superseded on other grounds by statute, 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1) (extending the time to file objections from ten to fourteen days). Here, Petitioner did not file objections in the prescribed period. The Court therefore reviews the Magistrate Judge's findings for clear error or abuse of discretion and reviews his legal conclusions to determine whether they are contrary to law. See United States v. Wilson, 864 F.2d 1219, 1221 (5th Cir. 1989), cert. denied, 492 U.S. 918 (1989) (holding that, if no objections to a Magistrate Judge's Report are filed, the standard of review is "clearly erroneous, abuse of discretion and contrary to law").

Having reviewed the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation, the Court finds no clear error or abuse of discretion and no conclusions contrary to law. The Court therefore adopts the Report and Recommendation of the United States Magistrate Judge (Docket No. 9) as the findings of this Court. Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that the Magistrate Judge's Report (Docket No. 9) is ADOPTED. It is further ORDERED that this action is DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE for want of prosecution and failure to obey an order of the court. All motions not previously ruled on are DENIED as MOOT.

So ORDERED and SIGNED this 24th day of November, 2020.

/s/_________

JEREMY D. KERNODLE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE