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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SCOTT EMERSON FELIX No. 1:23-cv-00839-ADA-BAM (PC) Plaintiff, v. ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S

CONSTRUED MOTION TO DECLINE ALL

STEPHANIE CLANDENIN, MAGISTRATE JUDGE INVOLVEMENT IN

HIS CASE

Defendant. (ECF No. 14) 16 On October 4, 2023, Plaintiff Scott Emerson Felix filed a document designated on the docket as “CONSENT/DECLINE of U.S. Magistrate Judge Jurisdiction.” (ECF No. 14.) Upon closer inspection of the document, it appears that Plaintiff seeks clarification about the role of Magistrate Judge Barbara A. McAuliffe in his case following his notice declining magistrate judge jurisdiction. (See id. at 1.) Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636 and Local Rule 302, magistrate judges in the Eastern District of California oversee civil rights cases filed by plaintiffs in custody, like this one. This means that magistrate judges hear and determine all non-dispositive pretrial matters. 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A). They…