Robinson v. Williams

District Court, N.D. New York

Robinson v. Williams

Trial Court Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK _______________________________________________________ SHEILA ROBINSON, Plaintiff, 6:22-CV-0982 v. (GTS/ML) MARK WILLIAMS, Utica NY, Police Officers 1-12; KYLE PIERSALL, Utica NY, Police Officers 1-12; JOHN DeTRAGLIA, Utica NY, Police Officers 1-12; JOSEPH AIELLO, Utica NY, Police Officers 1-12; BRIAN BAYE, Utica NY, Police Officers 1-12; MARISSA VOMER, Utica NY, Police Officers 1-12; K. PHILLIPS, Utica NY, Police Officers 1-12; BENNY GRULLON, Utica NY, Police Officers 1-12; DEREK SHULTZ, Utica NY, Police Officers 1-12; REGINALD SANDERS, Utica NY, Police Officers 1-12; BRIAN FRENCH, Utica NY, Police Officers 1-12; HIRAM RIOS, Utica NY, Police Officers 1-12; LOUIS L. STANTON, New York State Judge; JOHN DOES, Unknown New York State Erap Officials; LETITIA JAMES, New York State Attorney; CHUCK SCHUMER, New York Senator; AMAZON.COM; JEFF BEZIO, CEO of Amazon.com; FACEBOOK.COM; MARK ZUCKERBERG, CEO of Facebook.com; GOOGLE.COM; SERGIN BRIN, of Google; LARRY PAGE, of Google; SUNDAR PICHAI, CEO of Google; ZAZZLE.COM; ROBERT BEAVER, CEO of Zazzle.com; CAFEPRESS.COM; BOB MARINO, CEO of Cafepress.com; FRED DURHAM, of Cafepress.com; REDBUBBLE.COM; BARRY NEWSTEAD, of Redbubble.com; MARTIN HOPSKIN, of Redbubble.com; JASON APFEL, CEO of fragrance.net; DAVID BROWN, CEO of Networksolutions.com; SCOTT WAGNER, CEO of GoDaddy; SEAN MORIARTY, CEO of ENOM; ELLIOT NOSS, CEO of ENOM and Tucows; JEFF BERRY, CEO of Huge Domains; ANDREW BERRY, CEO of Huge Domains; DOMENICO SOLE, CEO of Gucci; VILNIUS KOLIZ, CEO of Vostok Watches; KOLIZ VOSTOC, CEO of Vostok Europe Watches; DAVID McCONNELL of Gorgeous Cosmetics; HELEN GIBSON, CEO of Hello Gorgeous; UTICA NEW YORK POLICE DEPT.; CITY OF UTICA IN NEW YORK STATE; and JOHN DOES, unknown co-conspirators, Defendants. _______________________________________________________ APPEARANCES: SHEILA ROBINSON Plaintiff, Pro Se 511 Tronolone Place, Apt. 4 Niagara Falls, New York 14301 GLENN T. SUDDABY, United States District Judge DECISION and ORDER Currently before the Court, in this pro se civil rights action filed by Sheila Robinson (“Plaintiff”) against the above-captioned individuals and entities (“Defendants”), is United States Magistrate Judge Miroslav Lovric’s Report-Recommendation recommending that Plaintiff’s revised Amended Complaint (Dkt. No. 12) be dismissed, without leave to replead, pursuant to

28 U.S.C. § 1915

(e)(2)(B)(I). (Dkt. No. 13.) Rather than file a document identified as an Objection to the Report-Recommendation, Plaintiff has filed a document that she identifies as a “motion to vacate judgment for fraud on the Court.” (Dkt. No. 15.) In addition, the same day that Magistrate Judge Lovric issued his Report-Recommendation, Plaintiff filed a document that essentially consists of a second revised Amended Complaint. (Dkt. No. 14.) After carefully reviewing the relevant filings in this action, the Court finds no clear error in the Report-Recommendation:1 Magistrate Judge Lovric employed the proper standards,

1 When no objection is made to a report-recommendation, the Court subjects that report-recommendation to only a clear error review. Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b), Advisory Committee Notes: 1983 Addition. When performing such a clear error review, “the court need only satisfy itself that there is no clear error on the face of the record in order to accept the recommendation.” Id.; see also Batista v. Walker, 94-CV-2826,

1995 WL 453299

, at *1 (S.D.N.Y. July 31, 1995) (Sotomayor, J.) (“I am permitted to adopt those sections of [a magistrate judge’s] report to which accurately recited the facts, and reasonably applied the law to those facts. (Dkt. No. 13.) As a result, the Court accepts and adopts the Report-Recommendation for the reasons stated therein. To those reasons, the Court adds the following three points. First, even if the Court were to liberally construe Plaintiff’s purported "motion to vacate judgment for fraud on the Court" as constituting an Objection to the Report-Recommendation,

and the Court were to subject the Report-Recommendation to a de novo review, the Court would find that the Report-Recommendation survives that review for the reasons stated therein. (Dkt. No. 13.) Second, the Court would reach the same conclusion if it were to alternatively treat Plaintiff’s purported "motion to vacate judgment for fraud on the Court" as an actual motion under Fed. R. Civ. P. 7 and Local Rule 7.1 of the District’s Local Rules of Practice. Setting aside the fact that there has been no “judgment” issued in this case (and no separate affidavit or declaration filed in support of the motion), Plaintiff’s allegations of fraud and/or bias against

Magistrate Judge Lovric are wholly without merit. As a result, Plaintiff’s purported "motion to vacate judgment for fraud on the Court" is denied as both procedurally improper and unsupported by a showing of cause. Third, and finally, the Court would reach the same conclusion it were to apply the findings in the Report-Recommendation to Plaintiff’s second revised Amended Complaint, because, although that document identifies ten new Defendants (compare Dkt. No. 14 with Dkt. No. 12), it asserts no new claims or factual allegations that cure the pleading defects identified in

the Report-Recommendation (compare Dkt. No. 14 with Dkt. No. 13). However, the Court need no specific objection is made, so long as those sections are not facially erroneous.”) (internal quotation marks omitted). 3 not, and does not, do so, because Plaintiff’s second revised Amended Complaint was filed without prior leave of the Court in violation of Fed. R. Civ. P. 15, which permits amendment only “once as a matter of course.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(1). More specifically, Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint – whether it be her original proposed Amended Complaint (Dkt. No. 10), her revised Amended Complaint (Dkt. No. 12), or her second revised Amended Complaint (Dkt.

No. 14) – was due on or before May 18, 2023 (Dkt. No. 11, at 5), 113 days before she filed her second revised Amended Complaint (compare Dkt. No. 11, at 5 with Dkt. No. 14). Special solicitude is not a license to ignore the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Furthermore, the Court finds that it would be a waste of judicial resources to task a magistrate judge with essentially operating and pleading-drafting seminar for this pro se litigant. As a result, Plaintiff’s second revised Amended Complaint is hereby stricken from the docket. ACCORDINGLY, it is

ORDERED that Magistrate Judge Lovric’s Report-Recommendation (Dkt. No. 13) is ACCEPTED and ADOPTED; and it is further ORDERED that Plaintiff’s revised Amended Complaint (Dkt. No. 12) is DISMISSED with prejudice and without prior leave to amend; and it is further ORDERED that Plaintiff’s second revised Amended Complaint (Dkt. No. 14) is STRICKEN from the docket; and it is further ORDERED that Plaintiff’s “motion to vacate for fraud on the Court” (Dkt. No. 15) is

DENIED as procedurally improper and, in any event, as unsupported by a showing of cause. The Court certifies that an appeal from this Order would not be taken in good faith.

4 Dated: January 31, 2024 Syracuse, New York Glenn T. Suddaby U.S. District Judge

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