CCP HERON LANDING, LLC
v.
JOSEPH O’NEILL, ET AL.

S.D. Fla. | 2025-11-30
No. 25-CV-61668
2025 FFL 30320 District Court, S.D. Florida (2025)

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Synopsis

A federal district court affirmed a magistrate judge's recommendation to remand a case to state court, finding that the federal court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the claims brought by CCP Heron Landing, LLC against Joseph O'Neill and others.


Holding

The court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the claims, and the case must be remanded to state court. The district court affirmed the magistrate judge's recommendation for remand.


Headnotes

[1] A district court need only review a magistrate judge's report and recommendation for clear error when no party timely objects to the report.

[2] Failure to object to a magistrate judge's factual findings after notice precludes a later attack on those findings.

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Key Quotes

“the court need only satisfy itself that there is no clear error on the face of the record in order to accept the recommendation”

Establishes the standard of review when no party objects to a magistrate judge's report

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Facts & Procedural History

The case was removed from Circuit Court of Broward County to federal district court. A magistrate judge issued an Order to Show Cause requiring defend…

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Opinion of the Court

THIS CAUSE is before the Court on the Report and Recommendation issued by United States Magistrate Judge Jared Strauss on September 4, 2025. [ECF No. 7 (“Report”]. Pursuant to Administrative Order 2025-11, upon removal from the Circuit Court of Broward County, this matter was assigned to Magistrate Judge Strauss. [ECF Nos. 1, 2]. After review of the Complaint and Notice of Removal, Judge Strauss issued an Order to Show Cause, directing the Defendants to show cause why this action should not be remanded to state court. [ECF No. 5]. After Defendants failed to respond to the Order to Show Cause, Judge Strauss issued the Report in which he recommends the case be remanded to state court because this Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the claims in the lawsuit. See Report. Neither party asserted objections to the Report, and the time to do so has passed.

When a magistrate judge's "disposition” has properly been objected to, district courts must review the disposition de novo. Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b)(3). When no party has timely objected, however, “the court need only satisfy itself that there is no clear error on the face of the record in order to accept the recommendation.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 72 advisory committee's

notes (citation omitted). Although Rule 72 itself is silent on the standard of review, the Supreme Court has acknowledged Congress's intent was to only require a de novo review where objections have been properly filed, not when neither party objects. See Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140, 150 (1985) (“It does not appear that Congress intended to require district court review of a magistrate [judge]'s factual or legal conclusions, under a de novo or any other standard, when neither party objects to those findings."). In any event, the “[f]ailure to object to the magistrate [judge]'s factual findings after notice precludes a later attack on these findings." Lewis v. Smith, 855 F. 2d 736, 738 (11th Cir. 1988) (citing Nettles v. Wainwright, 677 F. 2d 404, 410 (5th Cir. 1982)).

The undersigned has reviewed the Report, the record, and the applicable law to assure herself that no clear error appears on the face of the record. Based on that review, the undersigned agrees with Judge Strauss's well-reasoned analysis and recommendations, as stated above. Accordingly, it is

ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the Report and Recommendation [ECF No. 7] is AFFIRMED AND ADOPTED and incorporated into this Order by reference;

It is further

ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the instant action is REMANDED to the the County Court in and for Broward County, Florida.

MOOT.

The Clerk is directed to CLOSE this case, and any pending motions, are DENIED AS

DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, this 30th day of November, 2025.

MELISSA DAMIAN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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