Filed: Apr. 27, 2010
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Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 10-1031 J.D., a disabled minor, by and with his next friend; MARK E. DAVIS, Petitioners – Appellants, v. KANAWHA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, Respondent – Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Charleston. Joseph R. Goodwin, Chief District Judge. (2:09-cv-00139) Submitted: April 22, 2010 Decided: April 27, 2010 Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, and KING and AGEE, Circuit
Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 10-1031 J.D., a disabled minor, by and with his next friend; MARK E. DAVIS, Petitioners – Appellants, v. KANAWHA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, Respondent – Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Charleston. Joseph R. Goodwin, Chief District Judge. (2:09-cv-00139) Submitted: April 22, 2010 Decided: April 27, 2010 Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, and KING and AGEE, Circuit J..
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 10-1031
J.D., a disabled minor, by and with his next friend; MARK
E. DAVIS,
Petitioners – Appellants,
v.
KANAWHA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION,
Respondent – Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern
District of West Virginia, at Charleston. Joseph R. Goodwin,
Chief District Judge. (2:09-cv-00139)
Submitted: April 22, 2010 Decided: April 27, 2010
Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, and KING and AGEE, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
J.D., Mark E. Davis, Appellants Pro Se. Vaughn Sizemore, BAILEY
& WYANT, PLLC, Charleston, West Virginia, James W. Withrow,
KANAWHA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, Charleston, West Virginia,
for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Petitioners J.D. and Mark Davis appeal the district
court's order adopting the magistrate judge’s recommendation to
grant Respondent’s summary judgment motion on their civil action
seeking to set aside a state hearing officer decision denying
Davis’s request for a continuance of a due process hearing under
the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C.A.
§§ 1400-1482 (West 2010). The district court referred this case
to a magistrate judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B)
(2006). The magistrate judge recommended that Respondent’s
summary judgment motion be granted and advised Petitioners that
failure to file timely and specific objections to this
recommendation would waive appellate review of a district court
order based upon the recommendation. Despite this warning,
Petitioners failed to file objections to the magistrate judge's
recommendation and Respondent has moved to dismiss Petitioners’
appeal.
The timely filing of specific objections to a
magistrate judge's recommendation is necessary to preserve
appellate review of the substance of that recommendation when
the parties have been warned of the consequences of
noncompliance. Wright v. Collins,
766 F.2d 841, 845-46 (4th
Cir. 1985); see also Thomas v. Arn,
474 U.S. 140 (1985).
Petitioners have waived appellate review by failing to file
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objections after receiving proper notice. Accordingly, we grant
Respondent’s motion and dismiss Petitioners’ appeal. We
dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal
contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the
court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED
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