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Note: In response a Magistrate Judge Report recommending that the district court deny motions for default judgment against non-responding defendants sued for, among other counts, federal racketeering and conversion, none of the parties to the action objected to the findings of the Magistrate Judge. In noting that “[t]he Report has no presumptive weight and the responsibility to make a final determination in this matter remains with this court”, the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, Cain, J., adopted the report and denied motions for default judgment. The Magistrate Judge had concluded that two pro se defendants “may have defenses that would apply as well to the Defaulted Defendants” and that entry of default judgment would have been “premature” at that stage of litigation. Accordingly, the District Judge noted that following a “thorough and careful review, the court finds no clear error and adopts the Report.”

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