IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION

KEVIN A. ZEIGLER, ) Plaintiff, ) CASE NO. 1:19-CV-01998 ) v. ) JUDGE DAN A. POLSTER ) ANDREW SAUL, ) OPINION AND ORDER ) Comm’r of Soc. Sec., ) ) Defendant.

Before the Court is the Report and Recommendation (“R&R”) of Magistrate Judge David A. Ruiz. Doc #: 18. The Magistrate Judge recommends that the Court affirm the Commissioner’s final decision denying Plaintiff Kevin A. Zeigler’s applications for Disability Insurance Benefits (DIB) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) under Titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act,

(i), 423, 1381 et seq. (Act).

On September 21, 2015, Plaintiff filed his applications for DIB and SSI, alleging a disability onset date of April 10, 2015.

The application was denied initially and upon reconsideration, and Plaintiff requested a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ).

On October 2, 2018, the ALJ found Plaintiff not disabled.

On June 2, 2019, the Appeals Council denied Plaintiff’s request to review the ALJ’s decision, and the ALJ’s decision became the Commissioner’s final decision.

On August 29, 2019, Plaintiff filed a complaint challenging the Commissioner’s final decision. Plaintiff asserts the following assignments of error: (1) the ALJ erred by failing to give good reasons for not giving controlling weight to a treating physician’s opinion, and (2) the ALJ failed to properly evaluate Plaintiff’s symptoms.

On October 26, 2020, Magistrate Judge Ruiz recommended that the Commissioner’s final decision be affirmed. Doc #: 18. Under the relevant statute:

Within fourteen days after being served with a copy [of a magistrate judge’s R&R], any party may serve and file written objections to such proposed findings and recommendations as provided by rules of court. A judge of 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.

(b)(1) (emphasis added). In this case, the R&R was issued on October 26, 2020, and it is now November 10, 2020. Fourteen days have elapsed since the R&R was issued, and Plaintiff has neither filed objections nor a request for an extension of time to file them. The failure to timely file written objections to an R&R constitutes a waiver of a de novo review by the district court of any issues covered in the R&R. See Thomas v. Arn,

(6th Cir. 1984); see also United States v. Walters,

(6th Cir. 1981). Therefore, the Court ADOPTS the R&R in its entirety, Doc #: 18, and Plaintiff’s Complaint is dismissed, Doc #: 1. IT IS SO ORDERED.

/s/ Dan Aaron Polster November 10, 2020 Dan Aaron Polster United States District Judge