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Nature of Suit Code: 350
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Tort Action

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 

Simon Russell, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

Mauricio Alberto Flores, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. CV-14-02474-TUC-RM (EJM)

ORDER 

 On January 10, 2017, Magistrate Judge Eric J. Markovich issued a Report and 

Recommendation (Doc. 118) recommending that this Court grant in part and deny in part 

Defendant Werner Enterprises, Inc.’s (“Werner”) Motion for Partial Summary Judgment 

re: Punitive Damages and Negligent Hiring (Doc. 56)1

 and grant Defendant Werner’s 

Motion for Partial Summary Judgment re: Negligent Hiring (Doc. 74). No objections to 

the Report and Recommendation were filed. 

 A district judge must “make a de novo determination of those portions” of a 

magistrate judge’s “report or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which 

objection is made.” 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). The advisory committee’s notes to Rule 

72(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure state that, “[w]hen no timely objection is 

filed, the court need only satisfy itself that there is no clear error on the face of the record 

in order to accept the recommendation” of a magistrate judge. Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b) 

 

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 Defendant Mauricio Alberto Flores filed a notice of joinder to Defendant Werner’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment re: Punitive Damages and Negligent Hiring. (Doc. 96.) 

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advisory committee’s note to 1983 addition. See also Johnson v. Zema Sys. Corp., 170 

F.3d 734, 739 (7th Cir. 1999) (“If no objection or only partial objection is made, the 

district court judge reviews those unobjected portions for clear error.”); Prior v. Ryan, 

CV 10-225-TUC-RCC, 2012 WL 1344286, at *1 (D. Ariz. Apr. 18, 2012) (reviewing for 

clear error unobjected-to portions of Report and Recommendation). 

 The Court has reviewed Judge Markovich’s Report and Recommendation, the 

parties’ briefs, and the record. The Court finds no error in the recommendations of Judge 

Markovich’s Report and Recommendation. Accordingly, 

 IT IS ORDERED that the Report and Recommendation (Doc. 118) is accepted 

and adopted in full. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Defendant Werner’s Motion for Partial 

Summary Judgment re: Punitive Damages and Negligent Hiring (Doc. 56) is granted in 

part and denied in part as follows: the Motion is granted as to Plaintiff’s negligent 

hiring claim and denied as to Plaintiff’s punitive damages claim. 

 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Defendant Werner’s Motion for Partial 

Summary Judgment re: Negligent Hiring (Doc. 74) is granted. 

 Dated this 9th day of February, 2017. 

Honorable Rosemary Márquez

United States District Judge

 

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