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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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NOT FOR PUBLICATION 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 

Ellis Jerome Swinton, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

Joseph M. Arpaio, et al., 

Defendants.

No. CV-15-00794-PHX-JJT

ORDER 

 At issue are Defendants’ Motion for Sanctions (Doc. 29), to which Plaintiff filed 

no response, and the Report and Recommendation (“R&R”) submitted by United States 

Magistrate Judge Deborah M. Fine (Doc. 45), recommending that the Court grant said 

Motion. Plaintiff likewise has failed to file any objection to the R&R, timely or 

otherwise, and the time to do so has now elapsed. The court therefore is entitled to accept 

the R&R without further review and deem Plaintiff to have waived his right to appellate 

review of any findings of fact. See United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114, 1121 

(9th Cir. 2003); Rule 72, Fed. R. Civ. Pr. Nonetheless, the Court has conducted full 

review of the R&R and the factual and legal bases for it. Upon such review, the Court 

adopts in whole the R&R and the reasons underpinning it. The Court therefore will 

impose a sanction of $92.90 – the cost of the court reporter charge for the canceled 

deposition to which Plaintiff willfully failed to submit despite it being properly noticed. 

The Court finds the sanction to be both measured and appropriate under the 

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circumstances, which include Plaintiff's ultimate compliance with the Court's order to sit 

for a subsequently scheduled deposition. 

 IT IS ORDERED adopting in whole Judge Fine's R&R and the underlying 

reasoning. 

 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED granting Defendants’ Motion for Sanctions 

(Doc. 29) and awarding sanctions a in the amount of $92.90 to Defendants and against 

Plaintiff. 

 Dated this 20th day of October, 2016. 

Honorable John J. Tuchi

United States District Judge 

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