McFarland-Laswson v. US Department of Housing and Urban Development et al

Filing 156

ORDER signed by Magistrate Judge William E Duffin on 10/26/2020. The court now orders the parties to each file a completed Consent to Proceed Before a Magistrate Judge form no later than November 5, 2020. (cc: all counsel, plainitff w/magistrate form)(mlm)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN
JAMESETTA MCFARLAND-LAWSON,
Plaintiff,
v.

Case No. 16-CV-685

BENJAMIN J. CARSON, SR.,
Defendant.
ORDER
This matter was initially assigned to Magistrate Judge David Jones after all parties
consented to have him preside. Following Judge Jones’s resignation, the case was
reassigned to this court. Although the docket indicates that the Clerk’s Office distributed
new Consent to Proceed Before a Magistrate Judge forms to the parties, neither party has
returned the completed form. As the standing order of the Chief Judge that was included
with these forms states, “While the decision to consent or not to consent to the exercise of
jurisdiction by the magistrate judge is entirely voluntary, the duty to respond to this order
is mandatory.”
Therefore, the court now orders the parties to each file a completed Consent to
Proceed Before a Magistrate Judge form no later than November 5, 2020. If the defendant
fails to timely file the completed form, the defendant’s pending motion to revoke the

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plaintiff’s leave to proceed in forma pauperis (ECF No. 140) may be denied. If the plaintiff
fails to timely file the completed form, the defendant’s pending motion (ECF No. 140)
may be granted.
The Clerk shall mail a Consent to Proceed Before a Magistrate Judge form to the
plaintiff along with this order.
SO ORDERED.
Dated at Milwaukee, Wisconsin this 26th day of October, 2020.

_________________________
WILLIAM E. DUFFIN
U.S. Magistrate Judge

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