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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DALE HURD,

Plaintiff,

CASE NO. 02cv460-BEN (WMc)

ORDER ADOPTING REPORT

AND RECOMMENDATION

GRANTING DEFENDANTS’

MOTION FOR SUMMARY

JUDGMENT AND TERMINATING

CASE [Docket No. 131 ]

vs.

SYLVIA GARCIA, Warden, et al.,

Defendants.

Plaintiff Dale Hurd (“Hurd” or “Plaintiff”), a prisoner at Calipatria State Prison, has filed a

pro se Third Amended Complaint (“Complaint”) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against prison officials

Warden Garcia, Captain W. J. Price, Lieutenant R. Anti, Sergeant Richards, and Correctional

Officers Does 1-10. Hurd claims that the conditions of his confinement at Calipatria during a lock

down of the facility from December 2001 to March 2002 violated his rights to due process, equal

protection and to be free from cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth and Fourteenth

Amendments, that the Defendants failed to protect him from assault by another inmate in violation

of the Eighth Amendment, and that he was retaliated against for the exercise of his First

Amendment rights. He seeks monetary damages and an injunction preventing any future longterm deprivations of outdoor exercise. 

Defendants moved for summary judgment on all of the claims presented in Plaintiff’s

Complaint. The Honorable United States Magistrate Judge William McCurine Jr. issued a

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 Since the Report, the Court has received a filing from Hurd titled: “Submission of

Supplemental Affidavits In Support Of Opposition To Defendants’ Summary Judgment Motion.” The

Court has reviewed the supplemental affidavits submitted. The affidavits do not object to any portion

of the Report. Rather, they are cumulative of the exhibits Hurd has already filed, and discussed by

Judge McCurine, in Opposition to Defendants’ Motion. 

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thorough Report and Recommendation (“Report”), recommending Defendants’ Motion be granted,

and allowed the parties until September 18, 2006 to file objections to the Report. To date, no

objections to the Report have been filed. Nor has there been any request for additional time to file

objections.1

 Title 28U.S.C. § 636 (b)(1)(C) provides: “A judge of the [district] court shall 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.” Thus, the governing “statute makes it

clear that the district judge must review the magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations de

novo if objection is made, but not otherwise.” United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114, 1121

(9th Cir. 2003) (en banc) (emphasis in original); see also id. (“Neither the Constitution nor the

statute requires a district judge to review, de novo, findings and recommendations that the parties

themselves accept as correct.”) (citation omitted)); Wang v. Masaitis, 416 F.3d 992, 1000 n. 13

(9th Cir. 2005) ( “Of course, de novo review of a [Report] is only required when an objection is

made to the [Report].” ) (citation omitted)). Notwithstanding Hurd’s failure to object, the Court

has carefully reviewed the Report and the entire file. Judge McCurine’s analysis is supported by

the record, and is sound and well-reasoned. Accordingly, the Report is ADOPTED IN FULL. 

For the reasons stated in the Report, Defendants’ Motion is GRANTED. The case is terminated. 

The Clerk shall close the file.

SO ORDERED. 

DATED: September 28, 2006

Hon. Roger T. Benitez

United States District Judge

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