Campos

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CHRISTOPHER MAURICE Case No. 2:23-cv-08680-SB-AJR

MCDOWELL,

Plaintiff,

ORDER ACCEPTING, AS

MODIFIED, THE U.S.

v.

MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S

FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND

Sgt. Campos, et al.,

RECOMMENDATIONS

Defendants.

Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636, the Court has reviewed the Complaint, the records and files herein, the U.S. Magistrate Judge’s Report and Recommendation (R&R), and Plaintiff’s Objections to the Report and Recommendation.

In his objections, Plaintiff merely restates the allegations of his Fourth Amended Complaint and raises no specific objection to any portion of the R&R. Dkt. No. 43. The Court, therefore, need not review the R&R de novo and adopts it on this ground. Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b) (requiring that a party “file specific written objections” to the recommendations and mandating de novo review of only the portions “properly objected to”); see also Jones v. PGA Tour, Inc., 668 F. Supp. 3d 907, 916 (N.D. Cal. 2023) (“Only objections that reference specific portions of the report and recommendation will trigger de novo review.”). In the alternative, the Court adopts the R&R based on its…