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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 KENNETH WAYNE PARKS, No. 2:15-cv-1505 CKD P Plaintiff, v. ORDER JEFFREY ROHLFING, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding through counsel with a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Shortly after initiating this case, plaintiff consented to magistrate judge jurisdiction. (ECF No. 4.) After defendants were served, they declined magistrate judge jurisdiction and a district judge was assigned to this case. (ECF Nos. 44, 46.) On August 4, 2017, after counsel was appointed to represent plaintiff, the parties filed a joint status report which stated that plaintiff would “likely agree” to magistrate judge jurisdiction while defendants stated they did not have authority to agree to magistrate judge jurisdiction. (ECF No. 61 at 3, ¶ 10.) Two months later, the parties submitted another joint status report in which the parties reversed their positions on magistrate judge jurisdiction, with…