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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

 Plaintiff contends in this action that Defendants violated his Civil Rights in violation of the 

United States Constitution. This action is set for a jury trial to begin on March 18, 2014. 

At this time, a criminal case and several civil cases are set for shortly before March 18, 

2014, and these other trial likely will result in the Court needing to trail this action. Out of 

fairness, the Court believes it is necessary to forewarn the litigants that the Fresno Division of the 

Eastern District of California now has the heaviest District Judge caseload in the entire nation. 

While the Court will use its best efforts to resolve this case and all other civil cases in a timely 

manner, the parties are admonished that not all of the parties’ needs and expectations may be met 

as expeditiously as desired. As multiple trials are now being set to begin upon the same date, 

SID LANDAU, 

Plaintiffs 

v. 

W. T. VOSS, et al., 

Defendants. 

CASE: 1:07 -CV-0815 AWI DLB PC 

ORDER REQUIRING DEFENDANTS TO 

NOTIFY THE COURT WHETHER THEY 

WILL CONSENT TO MAGISTRATE 

JUDGE JURISDICTION WITHIN FIVE 

DAYS 

ORDER DIRECTING CLERK OF COURT 

TO SEND CONSENT FORMS TO THE 

PARTIES 

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parties may find their case trailing with little notice before the trial begins. The law requires the 

Court give any criminal case priority over civil trials and other matters, and the Court must 

proceed with criminal trials even if a civil trial is older or was set earlier. If the Court is already 

proceeding with a trial on the date this trial is set to proceed, this action’s trial will trail day to day 

or week to week until completion of any criminal case or older civil case. It also may simply be 

placed on the Court’s list of pending trailing trials. 

 The parties are reminded of the availability of a United States Magistrate Judge to conduct 

all proceedings in this action. A United States Magistrate Judge is available to conduct trials, 

including entry of final judgment, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 28 U.S.C. 636(c), Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 73, and Local Rule 305. The Court will direct the Clerk of the Court to provide the 

parties with the Court’s standard form to consent to or decline Magistrate Judge jurisdiction. 

Within five days, the parties shall either consent to or decline Magistrate Judge jurisdiction by 

filling out the requisite forms and returning them to the Court. 

The parties are advised that the same jury pool is used by both United States Magistrate 

Judges and United States Article III District Court Judges. Any appeal from a judgment entered 

by a United States Magistrate Judge is taken directly to the United States Court of Appeal for the 

Ninth Circuit. 

Finally, for the parties’ information, the Fresno Division, whenever possible, is utilizing 

United States Article III District Court Judges from throughout the country as Visiting Judges. 

Pursuant to the Local Rules, Appendix A, such reassignments will be random, and the parties will 

receive no advance notice before their case is reassigned to an Article III District Court Judge 

from outside of the Eastern District of California. 

The parties are hereby informed that no substantive rulings or decisions will be affected by 

whether a party chooses to consent. 

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 Accordingly, the court orders that: 

1. The Clerk of the Court is DIRECTED to provide the parties with the Court’s 

standard forms allowing them to consent or decline Magistrate Judge Jurisdiction; 

and 

2. Within five days from this order’s date of service, the parties shall notify the Court 

whether they consent to or decline Magistrate Judge jurisdiction by filling out the 

enclosed forms and returning them to the Court. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: March 5, 2014 

 SENIOR DISTRICT JUDGE 

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