Crawford

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JAMES DARREN CRAWFORD, Case No. 14-cv-05578-JD

Plaintiff,

ORDER REOPENING CASE

v.

JEFFREY BEARD, et al., Defendants.

12 On December 22, 2014, plaintiff, a state prisoner, filed a pro se civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and consented to the jurisdiction of a magistrate judge. Docket No. 1. The case was assigned to a magistrate judge who on May 17, 2016, ordered service on several defendants but also dismissed several defendants who had not yet appeared in the case and consented to a magistrate judge. Docket No. 15. The served defendants consented to a magistrate judge (Docket No. 28) and the case was closed when defendants’ motion to dismiss and motion for summary judgment was granted on September 29, 2017 (Docket No. 69). On November 9, 2017, the Ninth Circuit held in Williams v. King, 875 F.3d 500, 503-04 (9th Cir. 2017) that all parties including unserved defendants must consent to proceed before a magistrate judge for jurisdiction to vest. Id.…