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D. Minn.Substantive rulingFiled July 8, 2020

Anderson v. Benson Power, LLC

Judge
Michael Davis
Docket
0:19-cv-00053
Court
U.S. District Court · District of Minnesota
Pages
2
Summary JudgmentCivil Procedure
In one sentence

In Anderson v. NAES Corporation, Judge Davis denied NAES’s partial-summary-judgment motion and two other requests after adopting a magistrate judge’s recommendation.

Who this affects

Melissa L. Anderson, NAES Corporation, and Mechanical Systems, Inc.; the order specifically denied motions or a deadline request by NAES and Mechanical Systems, Inc.

What happened

In Anderson v. NAES Corporation, Melissa L. Anderson was the plaintiff, NAES Corporation was the defendant and third-party plaintiff, and Mechanical Systems, Inc. was the third-party defendant. The order followed a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation dated June 8, 2020; no one filed objections.

The court adopted the report and recommendation after reviewing it for clear error. It denied NAES’s first motion for partial summary judgment, denied NAES’s motion to strike a pleading, and denied Mechanical Systems, Inc.’s request for more time to submit an errata sheet.

Judge Michael J. Davis signed the order on July 8, 2020. The opinion does not explain the underlying disputes or the reasons for the magistrate judge’s recommendations beyond stating the procedural history and rulings.

The detailed version

For law students, journalists, and other readers who want the full reasoning

Case
Anderson v. Benson Power, LLC · No. 0:19-cv-00053
Judge
Michael Davis
Date
July 8, 2020

Background

Melissa L. Anderson sued NAES Corporation. NAES was also identified as a third-party plaintiff, and Mechanical Systems, Inc. was identified as a third-party defendant. The court considered a report and recommendation issued by United States Magistrate Judge Becky R. Thorson on June 8, 2020. No objections were filed within the permitted period.

Court’s Review

Because no objections were filed, the court reviewed the report and recommendation for clear error. The order states that the court acted based on the report and recommendation, the case files, the records, and the proceedings.

Rulings

The court adopted Magistrate Judge Thorson’s report and recommendation. It denied NAES’s first motion for partial summary judgment, denied NAES’s motion to strike a pleading, and denied Mechanical Systems, Inc.’s request to extend the deadline for submitting an errata sheet.

The order does not describe the claims, the arguments on the partial-summary-judgment motion, or the reasoning in the adopted report and recommendation. The supplied case name refers to “Benson Power, LLC,” but the opinion’s caption identifies the defendant as “NAES Corporation”; this summary follows the opinion’s caption.

The authoritative version

Read the full 2-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.

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