Opinion
No. 09-15656 Non-Argument Calendar.
August 16, 2010.
Kenneth Gene Wall, Montgomery, AL, for Appellant.
Anita Denise Wall, Wetumpka, AL, for Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. D.C. Docket No. 09-00527-CV-2-MEF-SRW.
Before WILSON, PRYOR and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.
Kenneth Wall appeals pro se the denial of his motion to alter or amend the judgment that dismissed his complaint that he was denied a fair divorce hearing because of a conspiracy between his former wife, Anita Wall, Judges John Bush and Sibley Reynolds, court reporter Carol Bush, and Family Court Referee Paul Hiebel. 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985. Wall moved to alter or amend on the ground that he had not received a copy of the report and recommendation of the magistrate judge that the district court had adopted. The district court denied Wall's motion, and we affirm.
The district court did not abuse its discretion by denying Wall's motion to alter or amend. The magistrate judge directed the clerk to serve Wall a copy of the report and recommendation, see Fed.R.Civ.P. 72(b)(1), and that "service [was] complete upon meaing," Fed.R.Civ.P. 5(b)(2)(C). There is a presumption that an item mailed has been received, Barnett v. Okeechobee Hosp., 283 F.3d 1232, 1239 (11th Cir. 2002), and Wall failed to submit sufficient evidence to rebut that presumption. Although Wall alleged that he did not receive the report and recommendation, he offered nothing more than his bare assertion to overcome the presumption. See id. at 1241. The clerk mailed the report and recommendation to the address provided by Wall, and the report was not returned as undeliverable by postal officials. Wall also had received documents mailed previously to that same address. Wall also failed to explain what objections, if any, he would have filed had he received the report earlier, nor has Wall offered any explanation on appeal.
We AFFIRM the denial of Wall's motion to alter or amend.