Filed: Feb. 11, 2015
Latest Update: Feb. 11, 2015
Summary: REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION STEPHANIE K. BOWMAN, Magistrate Judge. On November 25 and December 4, 2014, the Court Ordered Plaintiff to show cause, in writing, within TWENTY (20) DAYS, why Defendants' motions to dismiss (Docs. 8, 11) should be construed as unopposed and granted for the reasons stated therein. (Doc. 12, 13). To date, Plaintiff has not filed a response in opposition to either of Defendants' motions to dismiss nor has she responded to the pending Show Cause Orders. Plaintiff's fa
Summary: REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION STEPHANIE K. BOWMAN, Magistrate Judge. On November 25 and December 4, 2014, the Court Ordered Plaintiff to show cause, in writing, within TWENTY (20) DAYS, why Defendants' motions to dismiss (Docs. 8, 11) should be construed as unopposed and granted for the reasons stated therein. (Doc. 12, 13). To date, Plaintiff has not filed a response in opposition to either of Defendants' motions to dismiss nor has she responded to the pending Show Cause Orders. Plaintiff's fai..
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REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION
STEPHANIE K. BOWMAN, Magistrate Judge.
On November 25 and December 4, 2014, the Court Ordered Plaintiff to show cause, in writing, within TWENTY (20) DAYS, why Defendants' motions to dismiss (Docs. 8, 11) should be construed as unopposed and granted for the reasons stated therein. (Doc. 12, 13). To date, Plaintiff has not filed a response in opposition to either of Defendants' motions to dismiss nor has she responded to the pending Show Cause Orders.
Plaintiff's failure to prosecute this matter and to obey an Order of the Court warrants dismissal of this case pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(b). See Jourdan v. Jabe, 951 F.2d 108, 109-10 (6th Cir.1991). District courts have the power to sua sponte dismiss civil actions for want of prosecution to "manage their own affairs so as to achieve the orderly and expeditious disposition of cases." Link v. Wabash R.R., 370 U.S. 626, 630-31, 82 S.Ct. 1386, 8 L.Ed.2d 734 (1962). See also Jourdan, 951 F.2d at 109. Though plaintiff is proceeding pro se, as stated by the Supreme Court, "we have never suggested that procedural rules in ordinary civil litigation should be interpreted so as to excuse mistakes by those who proceed without counsel." McNeil v. United States, 508 U.S. 106, 113 (1993).
Accordingly, the undersigned RECOMMENDS that Plaintiff's case be DISMISSED for want of prosecution and for failure to obey a Court Order; and that this case be CLOSED.
