Lewis v. Klamath Falls MSL LLC

District Court, D. Oregon

Lewis v. Klamath Falls MSL LLC

Trial Court Opinion

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON

ARTHUR LEWIS,

Plaintiff, No. 1:21-cv-01270-CL

v. ORDER

KLAMATH FALLS MSL LLC; MSL COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT LLC; MBK SENIOR LIVING LLC,

Defendants. _______________________________________ AIKEN, District Judge. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke has filed a Findings and Recommendation (“F&R”), ECF No. 20, recommending that Defendants Motions to Dismiss and Compel Arbitration, ECF Nos. 11, 13, be denied. Under the Federal Magistrates Act, the Court may “accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the findings or recommendations made by the magistrate judge.”

28 U.S.C. § 636

(b)(1). If a party files objections to a magistrate judge’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). For those portions of a magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations to

which neither party has objected, 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 to which no objections are filed.”). Although no review is required in the absence of objections, the Magistrates Act “does not preclude further review by the district judge[] sua sponte . . . under a de novo or any other standard.”

Id. at 154

. The Advisory Committee Notes to Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b) recommend that “[w]hen no timely

objection is filed,” the court should review the recommendation for “clear error on the face of the record.” In this case, Defendants have filed Objections to the F&R, ECF No. 22, and Plaintiff has filed a Response, ECF No. 24. The Court has reviewed the F&R, the Objections, Response, and the file of the case and finds no error. The F&R, ECF No. 20, is therefore ADOPTED and Defendants’ Motions to

Dismiss and to Compel Arbitration, ECF Nos. 11, 13, are DENIED. It is so ORDERED and DATED this _1_8_t_h_ day of August 2022.

/s/Ann Aiken ANN AIKEN United States District Judge

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