Ramirez v. Winter Blues Inc et al

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA
MARCO RAMIREZ,
Plaintiff,
v.
WINTER BLUES, INC, in personam,
THE F/V WINTER BLUES,
OFFICIAL NO. 612146, HER
ENGINES, MACHINERY,
APPURTENANCES AND CARGO,
in rem,
Defendants.
Case No. 3:20-cv-00002-SLG-DMS
ORDER RE REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION
Before the Court at Docket 39 is Defendant’s Motion to Terminate
Maintenance. Plaintiff responded in opposition at Docket 41. The motion was
referred to the Honorable Magistrate Judge Deborah M. Smith. At Docket 42,
Judge Smith issued her Report and Recommendation, in which she recommended
that the motion be denied. No objections to the Report and Recommendation were
filed.
The matter is now before this Court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). That
statute provides that a district court “may accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in
part, the findings or recommendations made by the magistrate judge.”1 A court is
1 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1).
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to “make a de novo determination of those portions of the magistrate judge’s report
or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which objection is made.”2
But as to those topics on which no objections are filed, “[n]either the Constitution
nor [28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)] requires a district judge to review, de novo, findings
and recommendations that the parties themselves accept as correct.”3
The magistrate judge recommended that the Court deny the Motion to
Terminate Maintenance. The Court has reviewed the Report and
Recommendation and agrees with its analysis. Accordingly, the Court adopts the
Report and Recommendation, and IT IS ORDERED that the Motion to Terminate
Maintenance is DENIED.
DATED this 8th day of April, 2021 at Anchorage, Alaska.
/s/ Sharon L. Gleason
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
2 Id.
3 United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114, 1121 (9th Cir. 2003); see also Thomas v. Arn,
474 U.S. 140, 150 (1985) (“It does not appear that Congress intended to require district court
review of a magistrate’s factual or legal conclusions, under a de novo or any other standard,
when neither party objects to those findings.”).
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