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WILLIAMS v. KING

No. 15-15259.

875 F.3d 500 (2017)

Michael B. WILLIAMS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Audrey KING, Executive Director, Coalinga State Hospital; Coalinga State Hospital, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed November 9, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Bentz (argued), Jones Day, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Karli A. Eisenberg (argued), Deputy Attorney General; Niromi W. Pfeiffer , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Julie Weng-Gutierrez , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Sacramento, California; for Amicus Curiae California Attorney General.

Before: Johnnie B. Rawlinson and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges, and Susan P. Watters, District Judge.

OPINION

28 U.S.C. § 636(c)(1) requires the consent of all plaintiffs and defendants named in the complaint — irrespective of service of process — before jurisdiction may vest in a magistrate judge to hear and decide a civil case that a district court would otherwise hear. Because consent was...

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