COY v. ALLSTATE FLORIDIAN INSURANCE CORPORATION

Full title: ETHEL COY and LU ANN GUY, individually and on behalf of all those…

Court: United States District Court, M.D. Florida, Fort Myers Division

Date published: Feb 8, 2006

Case No. 2:05-cv-103-FtM-33DNF (M.D. Fla. Feb. 8, 2006)

Opinion

Case No. 2:05-cv-103-FtM-33DNF.

February 8, 2006

ORDER

VIRGINIA COVINGTON, District Judge

This matter comes before the Court on magistrate judge Douglas N. Frazier's Report and Recommendation (Doc. #51) filed on January 24, 2006, recommending that the Court deny Plaintiff's Amended Motion for Class Certification (Doc. #35). The Plaintiffs filed objections to the Report and Recommendation (Doc. #52) on February 3, 2006.

After conducting a careful and complete review of the findings and recommendations, a district judge may accept, reject or modify the magistrate judge's report and recommendation. 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1); Williams v. Wainwright, 681 F.2d 732, 732 (11th Cir. 1982), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 1112 (1983). A district judge "shall make a de novo determination of those portions of the report or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which objection is made." 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C). This requires that the district judge "give fresh consideration to those issues to which specific objection has been made by a party." Jeffrey S. by Ernest S. v. State Bd. of Educ. of Ga., 896 F.2d 507, 512 (11th Cir. 1990) (quoting H.R. 1609, 94th Cong., § 2 (1976)). As noted, Plaintiffs filed objections to the report and recommendation and the Court has carefully reviewed the objections.

For those issues that have not been specifically objected to, there is no requirement that a district judge review factual findings de novo, Garvey v. Vaughn, 993 F.2d 776, 779 n. 9 (11th Cir. 1993), and the court may accept, reject or modify, in whole or in part, the findings and recommendations. 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C). The district judge reviews legal conclusions de novo, even in the absence of an objection. See Cooper-Houston v. Southern Ry. Co., 37 F.3d 603, 604 (11th Cir. 1994).

After conducting a careful and complete review of the findings, conclusions and recommendations, and giving de novo review to matters of law and those matters to which objections were filed, the Court accepts the factual findings and legal conclusions of the magistrate judge. The Court therefore accepts the Report and Recommendation of magistrate judge Douglas N. Frazier.

Accordingly, it is now

ORDERED, ADJUDGED, and DECREED:

1. United States Magistrate Judge Douglas N. Frazier's Report and Recommendation (Doc. #51) is ACCEPTED and ADOPTED.

2. Plaintiff's Amended Motion for Class Certification (Doc. #35) is DENIED.

DONE and ORDERED.