Laymance v. Taylor

Full title: JEREMY LAYMANCE and MORGAN LAYMANCE, Plaintiffs, v. GREG TAYLOR, RONNIE…

Court: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS TYLER DIVISION

Date published: Jan 2, 2020

Case No. 6:19-CV-45-JDK-JDL (E.D. Tex. Jan. 2, 2020)

Opinion

Case No. 6:19-CV-45-JDK-JDL

01-02-2020

JEREMY LAYMANCE and MORGAN LAYMANCE, Plaintiffs, v. GREG TAYLOR, RONNIE FOSTER, MATTHEW HESTER, FELICIA HICKERSON, SHARON VAN COMPERNOLLE, and JOHN VAN COMPERNOLLE, Defendants.

JEREMY D. KERNODLE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

This case was referred to United States Magistrate Judge John D. Love pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636. On December 2, 2019, the Magistrate Judge issued a Report and Recommendation (Docket No. 36), recommending that the action be dismissed with prejudice against Defendant Felicia Hickerson for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. A return receipt indicating delivery to Plaintiffs was received by the Clerk on December 12, 2019 (Docket No. 38).

This Court reviews the findings and conclusions of the Magistrate Judge de novo only if a party objects within fourteen days of service of the Report and Recommendation. 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). In conducting a de novo review, the Court examines the entire record and makes an independent assessment under the law. Douglass v. United Servs. Auto. Ass'n, 79 F.3d 1415, 1430 (5th Cir. 1996) (en banc), superseded on other grounds by statute, 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1) (extending the time to file objections from ten to fourteen days). Here, Plaintiffs did not file objections in the prescribed period. The Court therefore reviews the Magistrate Judge's findings for clear error or abuse of discretion and reviews his legal conclusions to determine whether they are contrary to law. See United States v. Wilson, 864 F.2d 1219, 1221 (5th Cir. 1989), cert. denied, 492 U.S. 918 (1989) (holding that, if no objections to a Magistrate Judge's Report are filed, the standard of review is "clearly erroneous, abuse of discretion and contrary to law").

Having reviewed the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation, the Court finds no clear error or abuse of discretion and no conclusions contrary to law. The Court therefore adopts the Report and Recommendation of the United States Magistrate Judge (Docket No. 36) as the findings of this Court.

Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that the Magistrate Judge's Report (Docket No. 36) be ADOPTED and that the above-styled civil action be DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE against Defendant Felicia Hickerson for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted.

So ORDERED and SIGNED this 2nd day of January, 2020.

/s/_________

JEREMY D. KERNODLE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE