Opinion
4:21-cv-00158
09-08-2021
BENNIE ADAMS, Petitioner, v. WARDEN LASHANN EPPINGER, Respondent.
OPINION AND ORDER
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JAMES S. GWIN, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE:
On January 20, 2021, Plaintiff Bennie Adams filed a petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus. Adams filed an in forma pauperis application. The Court referred the matter to Magistrate Judge Jonathan D. Greenberg.
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On January 27, 2021, Magistrate Judge Greenberg issued a Report and Recommendation ("R&R") finding that Adams could pay the necessary case filing fees, making in forma pauperis relief inappropriate. Objections to the R&R were due by February 10, 2021. Plaintiff Adams filed no objections.
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The Federal Magistrates Act requires a district court to conduct a de novo review only of those portions of an R&R to which the parties have made an objection. Failure to timely object waives a party's right to appeal the magistrate's report. Where a party does not object to the R&R, a district court may adopt it without review.
Thomas v. Am, 474 U.S. 140, 154 (1985); Gerth v. Warden, Allen Oakwood Corr Inst, 938 F.3d 821, 827 (6th Cir. 2019).
See Thomas, 474 U.S. at 149-50.
Further, this Court has examined Plaintiff Adams' in forma pauperis application and believes it should be denied.
Accordingly, in light of Plaintiff Adams's decision not to object to the R&R in this case and his application's lack of merit, the Court ADOPTS Magistrate Judge Greenberg's R&R, incorporates it as if fully restated herein, and DENIES Plaintiff Adams' in forma pauperis application.
IT IS SO ORDERED.