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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

LARRY DARNELL ARTHUR,

Plaintiff,

CASE NO. 06cv2455-BEN (CAB)

ORDER ADOPTING REPORT

vs. AND RECOMMENDATION 

R. TORRES, Correctional Sergeant; 

F. GONZALES, Correctional Officer; 

J. FLORES, Correctional Officer,

Defendants.

Plaintiff filed a civil rights Complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Defendants moved to

dismiss the Complaint on the grounds that Plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies. 

Defendant Flores also moved to dismiss the Complaint for failure to state a claim against him. On

December 21, 2007, Magistrate Judge Ruben B. Brooks issued a Report and Recommendation

recommending that Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss be granted. No objections have been filed. 

For the reasons stated below, the Court adopts the well-reasoned Report and Recommendation of

the Magistrate Judge and grants Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss.

A district judge “may accept, reject, or modify the recommended decision” of a Magistrate

Judge on a dispositive matter. F.R.C.P. 72(b); see also 28 U.S.C. §636(b)(1). Moreover, “the

court shall make a de novo determination of those portions of the [report and recommendation] to

which objection is made.” Id. “The 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 

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. . . . Neither the Constitution nor the statute requires a district judge to review, de novo, findings

and recommendations that the parties themselves accept as correct.” U.S. v. Reyna-Tapia, 328

F.3d 1114, 1121 (9th Cir. 2003) (en banc), cert denied, 157 L.Ed.2d 182 (2003) (emphasis in

original).

In the Report and Recommendation, the Magistrate Judge correctly considered the

Plaintiff’s arguments and determined that Plaintiff failed to exhaust all available administrative

remedies, and that Plaintiff failed to state a claim against Defendant Flores. This Court adopts in

full the Report and Recommendation. Accordingly, Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED

in its entirety.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: January 29, 2008

Hon. Roger T. Benitez

United States District Judge

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