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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2241 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Federal)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Mahahmadou Toure, 

Petitioner, 

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Katrina Kane, 

Respondent. 

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No. CV 07-01388 PHX-NVW (MEA)

ORDER

Pending before the court is the Report and Recommendation (“R&R”) of Magistrate

Judge Aspey (Doc. # 11) regarding petitioner’s Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus filed

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Doc. # 1). The R&R recommends that the Petition be

dismissed with prejudice as moot. The Magistrate Judge advised the parties that they had ten

days to file objections to the R&R. (R&R at 3 (citing 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)). No objections

were filed.

Because the parties did not file objections, the court need not review any of the

Magistrate Judge’s determinations on dispositive matters. See 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1);

Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b); United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114, 1121 (9th Cir. 2003);

Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140, 149 (1985) (“[Section 636(b)(1)] does not . . . require any

review at all . . . of any issue that is not the subject of an objection.”). The absence of a

timely objection also means that error may not be assigned on appeal to any defect in the

rulings of the Magistrate Judge on any non-dispositive matters. Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(a)

(“Within 10 days after being served with a copy of the magistrate judge’s order, a party may

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serve and file objections to the order; a party may not thereafter assign as error a defect in

the magistrate judge’s order to which objection was not timely made.”); Simpson v. Lear

Astronics Corp., 77 F.3d 1170, 1174 (9th Cir. 1996); Philipps v. GMC, 289 F.3d 1117, 1120-

21 (9th Cir. 2002).

Notwithstanding the absence of an objection, the court has reviewed the R&R and

finds that it is well taken. The court will accept the R&R and dismiss the Petition. See 28

U.S.C. § 636(b)(1) (stating that the district court “may accept, reject, or modify, in whole or

in part, the findings or recommendations made by the magistrate”).

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the Report and Recommendation of Magistrate

Judge Aspey (Doc. #11) is accepted.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk enter judgment dismissing petitioner's

Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Doc. # 1) with

prejudice as moot. The Clerk shall terminate this action. 

DATED this 7th day of November 2007.

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