GEE, Circuit Judge:
This appeal concerns the power of a United States Magistrate to conduct a jury trial pursuant to the 1979 Magistrate's Act, 28 U.S.C. Sections 631-639. We conclude that he may do so only with the voluntary consent of all parties to the case, who may not be compelled to accept a trial so conducted. Even so because, in the circumstances presented, it appears that the refusal of one of the parties to consent resulted in merely a procedural error and...
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