I F G PORT HOLDINGS v. LAKE CHARLES HARBOR

No. 22-30398.

82 F.4th 402 (2023)

I F G PORT HOLDINGS, L.L.C., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LAKE CHARLES HARBOR & TERMINAL DISTRICT, doing business as Port of Lake Charles, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED September 21, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory George Garre , Latham & Watkins, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Samir Deger-Sen , Latham & Watkins, L.L.P., New York, NY, Marissa Marandola , Latham & Watkins, L.L.P., Boston, MA, Laura Kay Austin Theunissen , Mahtook & Lafleur, L.L.C., Lafayette, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Douglas Jay Cochran, Esq. , Stone, Pigman, Walther & Wittman, Baton Rouge, LA, Michael H. Rubin, Esq. , McGlinchey Stafford, P.L.L.C., Baton Rouge, LA, Michael Wendell McKay, Esq. , Long Law Firm, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, Nicholas John Wehlen, Esq. , Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before Graves, Higginson, and Douglas, Circuit Judges.


In 1979, Congress authorized Article III judges to refer civil cases to non-Article III magistrate judges "[u]pon consent of the parties." Federal Magistrate Act of 1979, Pub. L. No. 96-82, 93 Stat. 643, 643. Five years later, then-Judge Anthony Kennedy explained, writing for the en banc Ninth Circuit...

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