DOWNING v. CITY OF SAVANNAH/COUNTY OF CHATHAM METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT, CV414-055. (2014)
Court: District Court, S.D. Georgia
Number: infdco20141009e45
Visitors: 37
Filed: Oct. 08, 2014
Latest Update: Oct. 08, 2014
Summary: SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION G.R. SMITH, Magistrate Judge. Plaintiff Betty R. Downing filed this employment discrimination case on March 19, 2014, doc. 1, but the record showed that she abandoned any effort to litigate it. She failed, for example, to serve the defendant within the 120 days that Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(m) commands. The Court thus directed her to show cause why it should not dismiss her case for violating Rule 4(m). Doc. 3. When she failed to comply by the Court's August 6,
Summary: SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION G.R. SMITH, Magistrate Judge. Plaintiff Betty R. Downing filed this employment discrimination case on March 19, 2014, doc. 1, but the record showed that she abandoned any effort to litigate it. She failed, for example, to serve the defendant within the 120 days that Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(m) commands. The Court thus directed her to show cause why it should not dismiss her case for violating Rule 4(m). Doc. 3. When she failed to comply by the Court's August 6, ..
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SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION
G.R. SMITH, Magistrate Judge.
Plaintiff Betty R. Downing filed this employment discrimination case on March 19, 2014, doc. 1, but the record showed that she abandoned any effort to litigate it. She failed, for example, to serve the defendant within the 120 days that Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(m) commands. The Court thus directed her to show cause why it should not dismiss her case for violating Rule 4(m). Doc. 3. When she failed to comply by the Court's August 6, 2014 deadline, the undersigned (on August 8, 2014) issued a Report and Recommendation (R&R) advising dismissal. Doc. 4.
Downing, however, finally responded on that same day, August 8, 2014. Doe. 6. The R&R nevertheless is still pending before the district judge. Downing's untimely show cause order response consists of a mass of documents that ultimately fail to show, as defendants explain in their post-R&R motion to dismiss (which itself is unopposed per Local Rule 7.5), that Downing failed to timely serve the defendants. Doc. 10. Hence, the undersigned again recommends DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE for violating Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(m).
SO REPORTED AND RECOMMENDED.
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