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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:2201 Declaratory Judgement

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE

MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA, SOUTHERN DIVISION

JON B. CARROLL, )

)

 Plaintiff, )

) CIVIL ACTION NO.

 v. ) 1:16cv229-MHT

) (WO)

JOHN WHITE, et al., )

)

 Defendants. )

 

OPINION

Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Washington State 

law, plaintiff, a journalist, filed this lawsuit 

claiming that his rights to free speech, due process, 

and equal protection are threatened by defendants. 

This lawsuit is now before the court on the 

recommendation of the United States Magistrate Judge 

that plaintiff’s case be dismissed without prejudice

and that the motion to intervene filed by non-party 

Wykle Williams, Jr. be denied as moot. The magistrate 

judge characterizes plaintiff’s suit as seeking “an 

injunction preventing defendants from suing him for 

defamation per se,” Report and Recommendation (doc. no. 

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25) at 6, as well as “a declaratory judgment that 

possible defenses or affirmative defenses would be 

meritorious if he is sued by the defendants for 

defamation per se.” Id. at 9. Plaintiff does not 

object to the recommendation or its characterization of 

his claims. After an independent and de novo review of 

the record, and based on the court’s understanding that 

plaintiff does not object to the characterization of 

his claim, the court concludes that the magistrate 

judge’s recommendation should be adopted.

An appropriate judgment will be entered.

DONE, this the 14th day of December, 2016.

 /s/ Myron H. Thompson 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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