Opinion
Case No. 2:13-cv-01930-MMD-GWF
07-25-2014
CLAUDE CLEANTE, Plaintiff, v. LOCAL UNION 226, Defendant.
ORDER
Before the Court is the Report and Recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge George Foley, Jr. (dkt. no. 5) ("R&R") recommending dismissal with prejudice. No objections have been filed.
This Court "may accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the findings or recommendations made by the magistrate." 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). Where a party timely objects to a magistrate judge's report and recommendation, then the court is required to "make a de novo determination of those portions of the [report and recommendation] to which objection is made." 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). Where a party fails to object, however, the court is not required to conduct "any review at all . . . of any issue that is not the subject of an objection." Thomas v. Am, 474 U.S. 140, 149 (1985). Indeed, the Ninth Circuit has recognized that a district court is not required to review a magistrate judge's report and recommendation where no objections have been filed. See United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114 (9th Cir. 2003) (disregarding the standard of review employed by the district court when reviewing a report and recommendation to which no objections were made); see also Schmidt v. Johnstone, 263 F. Supp. 2d 1219, 1226 (D. Ariz. 2003) (reading the Ninth Circuit's decision in Reyna-Tapia as adopting the view that district courts are not required to review "any issue that is not the subject of an objection."). Thus, if there is no objection to a magistrate judge's recommendation, then the court may accept the recommendation without review. See, e.g., Johnstone, 263 F. Supp. 2d at 1226 (accepting, without review, a magistrate judge's recommendation to which no objection was filed).
Nevertheless, this Court finds it appropriate to engage in a de novo review to determine whether to adopt Magistrate Judge Foley's R&R. The Magistrate Judge recommended dismissal for Plaintiff's failure to comply with the Court's order for him to file an amended complaint following dismissal of his initial complaint. Upon reviewing the Recommendation and underlying records, this Court finds good cause to adopt the Magistrate Judge's Recommendation in full.
It is therefore ordered that the Report and Recommendation of Magistrate Judge George Foley, Jr. (dkt. no. 5) be accepted and adopted in its entirety. This case is dismissed with prejudice.
DATED THIS 25th day of July 2014.
/s/_________
MIRANDA M. DU
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE