Hill v. City of Seven Points

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a post-consent reference order signed by the district judge was required to vest authority in a magistrate judge for disposition of a summary judgment motion
• holding “more is needed to satisfy -3- § 636(c)’s ‘special designation’ requirement” than “the initial order of reference for a magistrate judge to rule on matters pursuant to § 636(b)(1)”
• “[W]ithout the requisite § 636(c)(1) special designation, we lack jurisdiction over the appeal from the magistrate judge’s summary judgment ruling.”
• “We must examine the basis of our jurisdiction, on our own motion, if necessary.” (cleaned up)
• equating “special designation” to “[t]he district court’s order of reference”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).