GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether the importance of consent in the statutory system for plenary referrals to a magistrate judge under 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) requires that a district judge, and not the magistrate judge, make the final determination of applicants' motion to intervene as of right when the case has been referred for all proceedings to a magistrate judge on the consent of the original parties.
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