Zachary v. Comm'r, Soc. Sec. Admin.

Full title: BRANDON REID ZACHARY, Plaintiff, v. COMMISSIONER, SOCIAL SECURITY…

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

Date published: May 18, 2020

Case No. 6:19-CV-139-JDK-KNM (E.D. Tex. May. 18, 2020)

Opinion

Case No. 6:19-CV-139-JDK-KNM

05-18-2020

BRANDON REID ZACHARY, Plaintiff, v. COMMISSIONER, SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, Defendant.

JEREMY D. KERNODLE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

This case was referred to United States Magistrate Judge K. Nicole Mitchell pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636. On April 30, 2020, the Magistrate Judge issued a Report and Recommendation (Docket No. 20), recommending that the Commissioner's final decision be affirmed and that this social security action be dismissed with prejudice.

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 Ass'n, 79 F.3d 1415, 1430 (5th Cir. 1996) (en banc), superseded on other grounds by statute, 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1) (extending the time to file objections from ten to fourteen days).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, Plaintiff 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 her 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. 20) as the findings of this Court.

Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that the Magistrate Judge's Report (Docket No. 20) is ADOPTED. It is further ORDERED that the Commissioner's final decision is AFFIRMED and that this civil action is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE. All pending motions are DENIED.

So ORDERED and SIGNED this 18th day of May, 2020.

/s/_________

JEREMY D. KERNODLE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE