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· 6/30/1980

United States v. Will Renfro

Citations

  • 620 F.2d 497
  • 6 Fed. R. Serv. 383
  • 1980 U.S. App. LEXIS 16142

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that an appellate court lacks jurisdiction to review a magistrate judge’s ruling where the district court is “deprived” of its “ability to effectively review the magistrate’s holding”
  • dismissing challenge to magistrate judge’s denial of a discovery motion that defendant did not appeal to the district court
  • dismissing the portion of the appeal that asked the court to directly review a magistrate judge’s order, but hearing the remainder of the appeal on the merits
  • “The law is settled that appellate courts are without jurisdiction to hear appeals directly from federal magistrates.”
  • “The law is settled that appellate courts are without jurisdiction to hear appeals directly from federal magis- trates.”

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Judges: Godbold, Tjoflat, Johnson

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