Peter Grassia v. Charles Scully, Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional Facility

How courts have described this case

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• “Even if neither party objects to the magistrate’s recommendation, the district court is not bound by the recommendation of the magistrate.”
• “Even if neither party objects to the magistrate’s recommendation, the district court is not bound by the recommendation of the magistrate.”
• stray comments unrelated to the decisional process were not sufficient 17 to raise triable issues concerning the discriminatory nature of a discharge
• “Had the district court rejected the magistrate’s conclusions regarding the credibility of the central witnesses without hearing live testimony from those witnesses, troubling questions of constitutional due process would have been raised.”
• \[T]he district court is not bound by the recommendation of the magistrate.\
• “Had the district court rejected the magistrate’s conclusions regarding the credibility of the central witnesses without hearing live testimony from., those witnesses, troubling questions of constitutional due process would have been raised.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).