Shaniek Mills Maynard

United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida magistrate 5 signed orders read

How Judge Maynard decides

Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

What persuades

On Clean Water Act enforcement, recommends against the government where, after Sackett, man-made ditches are not relatively permanent waters and the wetlands lack a continuous surface-water connection.

“Defendants' Cross Motion for Summary Judgment (DE 154) be granted ... Defendants' Cross Motion for Summary Judgment (DE 154) is GRANTED. The Court will separately enter judgment for Defendant.”

Procedural preferences

Treats a compulsory counterclaim as not subject to the IDEA's 90-day limitations period for an original action, recommending denial of a motion to dismiss it as untimely.

“ORDERED and ADJUDGED that the Report and Recommendation [ECF No. 68] is AFFIRMED and ADOPTED. Plaintiffs' Motion to Dismiss [ECF No. 58] is DENIED.”

Cautions

Recommends dismissing a complaint that is an impermissible shotgun pleading or barred by Younger abstention.

“Judge Maynard issued the Report, recommending that the Motion be granted ... dismissal is appropriate because (i) Plaintiff's claims are barred by the Younger abstention doctrine, and (ii) the Complaint is an impermissible shotgun pleading ... the Report [ECF No. 33] is AFFIRMED AND ADOPTED ... This case is DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.”

Signed rulings

A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.

Yost-Rudge v. City of Stuart
2:23-cv-14270-DMM · 2024-04-08
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Granted

“Magistrate Judge Shaniek Mills Maynard's Report and Recommendation regarding Defendants' Amended Motion to Dismiss ... is hereby ADOPTED. Plaintiffs' Complaint (DE 1) is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”

Sneed v. Persad
2:24-cv-14169-MD · 2025-04-23
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Granted

“Judge Maynard issued the Report, recommending that the Motion be granted ... dismissal is appropriate because (i) Plaintiff's claims are barred by the Younger abstention doctrine, and (ii) the Complaint is an impermissible shotgun pleading ... the Report [ECF No. 33] is AFFIRMED AND ADOPTED ... This case is DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.”

United States v. Sharfi
2:21-cv-14205-KAM · 2024-12-30
Summary judgment (plaintiff) Denied

“The Report recommends that Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (DE 150) be denied ... Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (DE 150) is DENIED.”

Summary judgment (defendant) Granted

“Defendants' Cross Motion for Summary Judgment (DE 154) be granted ... Defendants' Cross Motion for Summary Judgment (DE 154) is GRANTED. The Court will separately enter judgment for Defendant.”

United States v. Garipoli
9:24-cv-80573-AHS · 2025-01-28
Motions to dismiss (plaintiff) Denied

“recommending that Plaintiff's Motion be denied ... this Report and Recommendation (DE [43]) ... is APPROVED AND ADOPTED. Plaintiff's Motion to Dismiss Defendant, Elizabeth Angela Bellon, Only (DE [16]) is DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.”

L.H. v. Okeechobee County School Board
2:18-cv-14299-MARTINEZ-MAYNARD · 2020-09-15
Motions to dismiss (plaintiff) Denied

“ORDERED and ADJUDGED that the Report and Recommendation [ECF No. 68] is AFFIRMED and ADOPTED. Plaintiffs' Motion to Dismiss [ECF No. 58] is DENIED.”

Piedra v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration
· 2025-10-28
Social security appeal (plaintiff) Granted

“I respectfully RECOMMEND that Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment, DE 14, be GRANTED; that Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment, DE 16, be DENIED; and that Defendant's final administrative decision be REVERSED AND REMANDED for further proceedings consistent with the findings made in this report.”

Gayle v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society
· 2025-04-18
Preliminary injunction (plaintiff) Denied

“I respectfully RECOMMEND that Plaintiff's Motion for Emergency TRO, DE 6, be DENIED.”

Lors v. O&L Law Group, P.L.
· 2025-07-29
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Granted in part

“I respectfully recommend that the Motion be GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART and that the complaint be dismissed in its entirety but with leave to file an amended complaint.”

Higgs v. Commissioner of Social Security
· 2025-07-30
Motion for attorney fees (plaintiff) Granted

“I respectfully RECOMMEND that Plaintiff's Motion, DE 18, be GRANTED and that Plaintiff be awarded attorney fees in the amount of $7,300 under the EAJA”

Smith v. James
· 2025-04-25
Motion for attorney fees (defendant) Denied

“I respectfully RECOMMEND that Mark Sohn's Motion for Bill of Costs, DE 206, be DENIED WITH PREJUDICE for failure to comply with the timing requirements of Southern District of Florida Local Rule 7.3(c).”

Campos v. Chavam Enterprises, Inc.
· 2025-04-14
Motion for sanctions (plaintiff) Granted

“I therefore certify the facts set out above and RECOMMEND that presiding U.S. District Judge Judge Rosenberg GRANT Plaintiff's Renewed Motion for Contempt, DE 67, by setting a show cause hearing”

Jennis v. Secretary for the Department of Corrections
· 2026-05-01
Habeas petition (petitioner) Denied

“I respectfully recommend that the Amended Motion to Reopen Habeas Proceeding, DE 34, be DENIED, and that this case be CLOSED.”

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