Opinion ID: 744192
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Heading: Whether the new transferees consented to the supplemental

Text: 39 proceedings before a magistrate judge. 22 40 Assuming arguendo that this court would require the consent of latecomers, 23 we find that the new transferees--Michele Baeza, Javier Baeza, Encarnacion Baeza, and Power Depot--also consented to the authority of the magistrate judge. A review of the record reveals that the transferees gave their consent to the magistrate judge's authority subsequent to the final judgment in the supplementary proceedings in the form of an acceptance of judgment. On April 8, 1994, the new transferees submitted a motion to withdraw their request for a new trial, and accepted the magistrate judge's judgment. Clearly encompassed in this acceptance of judgment is an acknowledgment of the new transferees' consent to the authority and jurisdiction of the magistrate judge. Because § 636(c) does not require a specific form or time of consent or even that it be in writing, the new transferees' acceptance of judgment constituted consent. King, 825 F.2d at 1185; Smith v. Shawnee Library System, 60 F.3d 317, 321 (7th Cir.1995) (A late-submitted consent is an unequivocal representation that the magistrate was acting with the parties' consent) (quotations omitted). 41 Finally, as was the case with GTI, Baeza, Sr., Baeza, Jr. and Gonzalez Trading, the new transferees' consent, when coupled with a failure to object to the magistrate judge's authority, waived any argument that they were deprived of their constitutional rights. See Peretz v. United States, 501 U.S. 923, 111 S.Ct. 2661, 115 L.Ed.2d 808 (1991). 42