Opinion
C. A. 20-794
04-29-2022
CHARLES WILLIAMS, Plaintiff, v. THE PA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS, et al., Defendants.
The Honorable Richard A. Lanzillo, United states Magistrate Judge.
MEMORANDUM ORDER
SUSAN PARADISE BAXTER, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE.
Plaintiff Charles Williams, an inmate formerly incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Fayette in LaBelle, Pennsylvania (“SCI-Fayette”), commenced this pro se civil rights action on June 1, 2020, against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (“DOC”), John Wetzel, Secretary of the DOC, and numerous DOC employees staffed at SCI-Fayette. This matter was referred to United States Magistrate Judge Richard A. Lanzillo, for report and recommendation in accordance with the Magistrates Act, 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1), and Rules 72.1.3 and 72.1.4 of the Local Rules for Magistrates.
On December 27, 2021, Plaintiff filed a motion for emergency transfer out of SCI-Fayette [ECF No. 65]. Plaintiff was subsequently transferred from SCI-Fayette to the State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, Pennsylvania (see ECF No. 69). As a result, Judge Lanzillo issued a Report and Recommendation (“R&R”) on March 21, 2022, recommending that Plaintiff's motion for emergency transfer be denied as moot [ECF No. 78]. Objections to the R&R were filed by Plaintiff on April 7, 2022 [ECF No. 82]; however, such objections fail to raise any grounds for rejecting the Magistrate Judge's recommendation.
After de novo review of Plaintiff's motion, together with the report and recommendation and objections thereto, the following order is entered:
AND NOW, this 29th day of April, 2022;
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff's motion for emergency transfer out of SCI-Fayette [ECF No. 65] is DENIED as moot. The report and recommendation of Magistrate Judge Lanzillo, issued March 21, 2022 [ECF No. 78], is adopted as the opinion of the court.