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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS 
LAREDO DIVISION 
 
JENNYFER GAYTAN § 
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VS. 
 
VERDA EXPRESS, INC. et al. 
         CIVIL ACTION NO. 5:25-cv-203 
ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION 
 
The Court referred Plaintiff’s Unopposed Motion for Leave to File Plaintiff’s First 
Amended Complaint (Dkt. No. 8) to Magistrate Judge Christopher dos Santos for a 
Report and Recommendation  (Dkt. No. 9) . Judge dos Santos recommended gra nting 
Plaintiff’s motion to omit her “claims under the Texas Transportation Code Sections 
545.357, 545.401, 545.415(a) and 547.501” (Dkt. No. 13 at 1 (citing Dkt. No. 8 at 1)). The 
fourteen-day objection period has lapsed, and no party objected to this recommendation. 
See 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). 
Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 72(b), the Court reviewed the Report 
and Recommendation for clear error. CGI Logistics, LLC v. Fast Logistik , No. 5:23-CV-
43, 2023 WL 8313341, at *2 (S.D. Tex. Dec. 1, 2023) (Garcia Marmolejo, J.) (citing United 
States v. Soto, 734 F. App’x 258, 259 (5th Cir. 2018)); see also Cao v. BSI Fin. Servs., Inc., 
858 F. App’x 156, 158 (5th  Cir. 2021). Finding none, the Court hereby ADOPTS IN 
WHOLE Judge dos Santos’s Report and Recommendation (Dkt. No. 13).  
Accordingly, Plaintiff’s Unopposed Motion for Leave to File Plaintiff’s First 
Amended Complaint is GRANTED (Dkt. No. 8). The Clerk of Court is DIRECTED  to 
docket Plaintiff’s First Amended Complaint (Dkt. No. 8-1).  
United States District Court
Southern District of Texas
ENTERED
February 17, 2026
Nathan Ochsner, Clerk
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It is so ORDERED.  
 SIGNED February 13, 2026. 
 
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Marina Garcia Marmolejo 
United States District Judge 
 
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