Opinion
Case No. 2:16-cv-02489-APG-CWH
11-21-2017
JEFF H. WILLIAMSON, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al., Defendants.
ORDER ON REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION
(ECF. No. 6)
On October 16, 2017, Magistrate Judge Hoffman entered a report and recommendation that I dismiss this case without prejudice because plaintiff Jeff Williamson did not pay the filing fee or file a renewed application to proceed in forma pauperis as directed. ECF No. 6. Williamson did not file an objection. Thus, I am not obligated to conduct a de novo review of the report and recommendation. 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1) (requiring district courts to "make a de novo determination of those portions of the report or specified proposed findings to which objection is made"); United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114, 1121 (9th Cir. 2003) (en banc) ("the district judge must review the magistrate judge's findings and recommendations de novo if objection is made, but not otherwise" (emphasis in original)). I nevertheless conducted a de novo review. 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). Judge Hoffman sets forth the proper legal analysis and factual basis for the decision.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Judge Hoffman's report and recommendation (ECF No. 6) is accepted. Plaintiff Jeff Williamson's complaint is DISMISSED without prejudice. The clerk of court is instructed to close this case.
DATED this 21st day of November, 2017.
/s/_________
ANDREW P. GORDON
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE