(PS) Robbins v. Merit Systems Protection Board

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 Deanna Robbins, No. 2:21-CV-0621-KJM-DMC 12 Plaintiff, ORDER 13 Vv. 14 Merit Systems Protection Board, 1S Defendant. 16 17 Plaintiff Deanna Robbins, proceeding pro se, filed the above-entitled action. The matter 18 | was referred to a United States Magistrate Judge as provided by Local Rule 302(c)(21). 19 On August 1, 2022, the magistrate judge filed findings and recommendations, which were 20 | served on the plaintiff and notified the plaintiff that any objections to the findings and 21 | recommendations were to be filed within fourteen days. ECF No. 18. Plaintiff has not filed 22 | objections to the findings and recommendations. The magistrate judge’s conclusions of law 23 | nevertheless are reviewed de novo. See Robbins v. Carey, 481 F.3d 1143, 1147 (9th Cir. 2007) 24 | (“[D]eterminations of law by the magistrate judge are reviewed de novo by both the district court 25 | and [the appellate] court...…