Boyejo v. Cobb County Adult Detention Center et al, No. 1:2017cv00685 - Document 9 (N.D. Ga. 2017)
Court Description: ORDER and OPINION OVERRULING Plaintiff's 8 Objections and ADOPTING the 6 Final Report and Recommendation. The Court DISMISSES with prejudice Plaintiff's 1 Complaint and 5 Amended Complaint. Signed by Judge Orinda D. Evans on 8/8/2017. (sap)
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Boyejo v. Cobb County Adult Detention Center et al Doc. 9 f ;h.e'o., CWlMBERa IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ATLANTA DIVISION SUNDAY SUNNY BOYEJO, Cobb Cnty. ID # 865094, Plaintiff, t>- ua.o.c. 16 AU-...... r .. ... J Og 2017 "]j alJ?Qil. CIVIL ACTION NO. 1:17-CV-00685-0DE v. COBB CNTY. ADULT DET. CTR., et al., Defendants. PRISONER CIVIL ACTION 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ORDER Now before the Court are the Magistrate Judge's Final Report and Recommendation ("R&R") (Doc. 6) and Plaintiffs objections thereto (Doc. 8). In reviewing a Magistrate Judge's R&R, the district court "shall make a de novo determination of those portions of the report or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which objection is made." 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(l). "Parties filing objections to a magistrate's report and recommendation must specifically identify those findings objected to. Frivolous, conclusive, or general objections need not be considered by the district court." United States v. Schultz, 565 F .3d 1353, 1361 (11th Cir. 2009) (quoting Marsden v. Moore, 847 F.2d 1536, 1548 (I Ith Cir. 1988)) (internal quotation marks omitted). Absent objection, the district court judge "may accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the findings and recommendations made A072A (Rev.8/82) Dockets.Justia.com by the magistrate LJudge]," 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(l), and "need only satisfy itself that there is no clear error on the face of the record" in order to accept the recommendation. Fed. R. Civ. P. 72, advisory committee note, 1983 Addition, Subdivision (b ). In accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 636(b )(1) and Rule 72 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Court has conducted a de novo review of those portions of the R&R to which Plaintiff objects and has reviewed the remainder of the R&R for plain error. See United States v. Slay, 714 F.2d 1093, 1095 (11th Cir. 1983). The Magistrate Judge reviewed Plaintiffs initial complaint and gave him an opportunity to amend it to allege a plausible claim for relief, stating: Plaintiff has perhaps stated a plausible excessive force claim against Deputies Eubanks and Vitteotoe, but not against any of the other named Defendants. Indeed, in order to proceed, all of Plaintiffs excessive force claims require greater detail regarding the circumstances of the alleged abuse. See Seibert v. Comm 'r, Ga. Dep 't of Corr., 15-10501, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 3247, at *7 (11th Cir. Feb. 23, 2017) (quoting [Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009)] to the effect that "[t]hreadbare recitals of the elements of a cause of action, supported by mere conclusory statements, do not suffice"; and citing Am. Dental Ass 'n v. Cigna Corp., 605 F.3d 1283, 1293 (11th Cir. 2010), for "dismissing a claim where the allegations were 'conclusory' "). And verbal harassment alone cannot be the basis for a constitutional claim against jail officers. (Doc. 4 at 4-5 (citation omitted)). The Magistrate Judge also stated: Although Plaintiff may have stated a plausible claim regarding the denial of constitutionally adequate medical care, he has not named a medical 2 A072A (Rev.8/82) care provider who might be amenable to suit in this action. If it is his contention that Lt. Gordon alone made the decision to deny him medical treatment, he must clarify how that occurred. (Id. at 6). Plaintiff filed a virtually identical "amended" complaint (Doc. 5), except for the voluminous but irrelevant material attached thereto (see id. at 11-81 ), and the Magistrate Judge has recommended dismissing that complaint without prejudice due to Plaintiffs failure to state a plausible claim for relief; his failure to obey the Court's previous order that he file an amended complaint; and his improper joinder of disparate claims, alleging excessive force against a series of defendants without demonstrating any connection between or among the alleged incidents, medical deliberate indifference, illegal conditions of confinement and violations of his First Amendment rights. (Doc. 6 at 6). Plaintiffs "objections" are a restatement of his initial claims for a third time, along with an attempt to add new claims and new defendants. (See generally Doc. 8). Plaintiff has not filed a specific objection to the Magistrate Judge's R&R, and the Court declines to consider the new allegations in his objections because Plaintiff did not present those allegations to the Magistrate Judge, even though he was given a second opportunity to do so. See Williams v. McNeil, 557 F.3d 1287, 1292 (11th Cir. 3 A072A (Rev.8/82) 2009) ("hold[ing] that a district court has discretion to decline to consider a party's argument when that argument was not first presented to the magistrate judge"). Plaintiffs objections (Doc. 8) are therefore OVERRULED. The Court ADOPTS the Magistrate Judge's Final Report and Recommendation (Doc. 6) as the ORDER and OPINION of the Court, and DISMISSES with prejudice Plaintiffs complaint, as amended (Docs. 1, 5), for the reasons stated in the R&R. SO ORDERED this J7 day of August, 2017. ORINDA D. EVANS UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 4 A072A (Rev.8/82)
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