Filed: Jul. 24, 2014
Latest Update: Jul. 24, 2014
Summary: ORDER MICHAEL H. SIMON, District Judge. United States Magistrate Judge Janice M. Stewart issued Findings and Recommendation in this case on July 1, 2014. Dkt. 32. Judge Stewart recommended that the Court deny Plaintiff's motion for declaratory judgment. Dkt. 25. No party has filed objections. Under the Federal Magistrates Act ("Act"), the court may "accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the findings or recommendations made by the magistrate." 28 U.S.C. 636(b)(1)(C). If a party fil
Summary: ORDER MICHAEL H. SIMON, District Judge. United States Magistrate Judge Janice M. Stewart issued Findings and Recommendation in this case on July 1, 2014. Dkt. 32. Judge Stewart recommended that the Court deny Plaintiff's motion for declaratory judgment. Dkt. 25. No party has filed objections. Under the Federal Magistrates Act ("Act"), the court may "accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the findings or recommendations made by the magistrate." 28 U.S.C. 636(b)(1)(C). If a party file..
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ORDER
MICHAEL H. SIMON, District Judge.
United States Magistrate Judge Janice M. Stewart issued Findings and Recommendation in this case on July 1, 2014. Dkt. 32. Judge Stewart recommended that the Court deny Plaintiff's motion for declaratory judgment. Dkt. 25. No party has filed objections.
Under the Federal Magistrates Act ("Act"), the court may "accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the findings or recommendations made by the magistrate." 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C). If a party files objections to a magistrate's findings and recommendations, "the court shall make a de novo determination of those portions of the report or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which objection is made." Id.; Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b)(3).
If no party objects, the Act does not prescribe any standard of review. See Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140, 152 (1985) ("There is no indication that Congress, in enacting [the Act], intended to require a district judge to review a magistrate's report[.]"); United States. v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114, 1121 (9th Cir. 2003) (en banc) (the court must review de novo magistrate's findings and recommendations if objection is made, "but not otherwise").
Although review is not required in the absence of objections, the Act "does not preclude further review by the district judge[] sua sponte . . . under a de novo or any other standard." Thomas, 474 U.S. at 154. Indeed, the Advisory Committee Notes to Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b) recommend that "[w]hen no timely objection is filed," the court review the magistrate's findings and recommendations for "clear error on the face of the record."
No party having made objections, this Court follows the recommendation of the Advisory Committee and reviews Judge Stewart's Findings and Recommendation for clear error on the face of the record. No such error is apparent. Accordingly, the Court ADOPTS Judge Stewart's Findings and Recommendation, Dkt. 32. The Court DENIES Plaintiff's Motion for Declaratory Judgment Pursuant to Rule 57 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Dkt. 25.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
