Opinion
20-cv-12774
05-06-2021
MATTHEW SHAWN BORKE, Plaintiff, v. KELCY WARREN, et al., Defendants.
ORDER (1) ADOPTING RECOMMENDED DISPOSITION OF REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION (ECF NO. 30) AND (2) TERMINATING DEFENDANTS' MOTIONS TO DISMISS (ECF NOS. 12, 18) WITHOUT PREJUDICE
MATTHEW F. LEITMAN, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
On October 13, 2020, Plaintiff Matthew Shawn Borke filed a pro se civil-rights action against the Defendants. (See Compl., ECF No. 1.) The Defendants then moved to dismiss. (See Mots., ECF No. 12, 18.) After the Defendants filed their motions, the assigned Magistrate Judge issued an order in which he granted Borke leave to file a First Amended Complaint “in order to remedy the purported pleading defects that Defendants [] raised in their motion[s] to dismiss.” (Order, ECF No. 22, PageID.174-175.) The Magistrate Judge also told the parties that if Borke filed a First Amended Complaint, he would recommend that the Court terminate Defendants' motions to dismiss as moot. (See id.)
Borke filed a First Amended Complaint on March 31, 2021. (See First Am. Compl., ECF No. 26.) And Defendants have now filed new motions to dismiss that pleading. (See Mots., ECF Nos. 27, 28.) In light of the filing of the First Amended Complaint and Defendants' new motions, the Magistrate Judge issued a report and recommendation on April 20, 2021, in which he recommended that the Court deny Defendants' initial motions to dismiss without prejudice as moot (the “R&R”). (See R&R, ECF No. 30.) At the conclusion of the R&R, the Magistrate Judge informed the parties that if they wanted to seek review of the recommendation, they needed to file specific objections with the Court within fourteen days. (See id., PageID.355.)
No party has filed any objections to the R&R. The failure to object to an R&R releases the Court from its duty to independently review the matter. See Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140, 149 (1985). Likewise, the failure to file objections to an R&R waives any further right to appeal. See Howard v. Sec'y of Health and Human Servs., 932 F.2d 505 (6th Cir. 1991); Smith v. Detroit Fed'n of Teachers Local 231, 829 F.2d 1370, 1373 (6th Cir. 1987).
Accordingly, because no party has filed objections to the R&R, and because Defendants' initially-filed motions to dismiss are now moot, the Court ADOPTS Magistrate Judge's recommended disposition of Defendants' motions.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Defendants' initially-filed motions to dismiss (ECF Nos. 12, 18) are TERMINATED WITHOUT PREJUDICE as moot.