Alvin E. Goney v. James E. Clark, Jr., Warden, Fayette County Jail

How courts have described this case

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• holding that de novo review is not required where a party’s objections were general in nature and lacked specificity as required by 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)
• opining that “providing a complete de novo determination where only a general objection to the report is offered would undermine the efficiency the magistrate system was meant to contribute to the judicial process”
• finding that “plaintiff’s objections lacked the specificity necessary to trigger de novo review”
• finding that “plaintiff’s objections lacked the specificity necessary to trigger de novo review”
• finding that “plaintiff’s objections lacked the specificity necessary to trigger de novo review”
• explaining that de novo review is not required if objections are not specific

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).