Opinion
No. 1:11-cv-890.
October 19, 2011
ORDER
THE BACKGROUND OF THIS ORDER IS AS FOLLOWS:
On May 12, 2011, Magistrate Judge Martin Carlson issued a Report and Recommendation ("R R") in the above-captioned case. (Doc. No. 6.) In the May 12, 2011 R R, Judge Carlson granted Plaintiff Gilberto Colon's motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis but recommended that the Court dismiss Colon's complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted without prejudice to allowing Colon to attempt to correct the deficiencies noted in the original complaint. (Id. at 2.) Rather than filing objections to the R R, Colon filed what appeared to this Court to be an amended complaint. (Doc. No. 9.) As a result, on June 9, 2011, this Court adopted the R R dismissing the original complaint but remanded the case to Judge Carlson to determine whether Colon had met the pleading requirements in Colon's amended complaint.
On June 10, 2011, Magistrate Judge Carlson issued a second R R, addressing the merits of the Colon's amended complaint. (Doc. No. 11.) In the R R, Magistrate Judge Carlson notes that the amended complaint compounds the deficiencies in the original complaint and "despite the prior guidance and advice set forth in [the] initial report and recommendation . . . still fails to comply with the basic requisites for a valid complaint in federal court" by failing to provide a "short and plain" statement of a cause of action. (Id. at 3-5.) Instead, "[t]he amended complaint is a 25-page document, which seeks to add a half dozen new individual and institutional Defendants to this lawsuit. . . . After naming these additional Defendants and demanding the payment of $7,200,000 from the Defendants, Colon engages in an extended, confused factual exegesis." (Id. at 3.) The R R goes further to explain the tenor of the claims asserted by Colon in the amended complaint, explaining that "[t]he factual matters recited by Colon in [his amended complaint] appear to span many years, and have the quality in some instances of things that may be more imagined than real." (Id.) Magistrate Judge Carlson explains that the amended complaint focuses on events of a sexual nature, and reveal themes of "anger, violence, and mental illness." (Id. at 3-5.) After reviewing the 25-page amended complaint, Magistrate Judge Carlson found that the complaint does not contain sufficient factual recitals to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, that many of the allegations in the complaint are time-barred, that venue does not lie in this district over a number of the allegations, and that various claims made in the complaint fail as a matter of law. (Id. at 24-26.)
In deciding whether to accept, reject, or modify an R R, the Court is to make a de novo determination of those portions of the R R to which objection is made. 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). Since the filing of the June 10, 2011 R R, the Court has received three letters from Colon, one of which could be liberally construed as an objection to the R R. (See Doc. No. 13.) However, this document fails to provide any legal argument against the dismissal of the complaint and instead only continues in the same themes of anger, violence, and confusion surmised by Magistrate Judge Carlson in the amended complaint.
ACCORDINGLY, on this 19th day of October 2011, finding no meritorious objections filed thereto, it is HEREBY ORDERED THAT Magistrate Judge Carlson's Report and Recommendation (Doc. No. 11) is ADOPTED and Plaintiff's amended complaint (Doc. No. 9) is dismissed with prejudice for the reasons outlined in the June 10, 2011 Report and Recommendation. The Clerk of Court shall close this case.