Brown
Brown v. United States
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA EUREKA DIVISION 7 ALICE BROWN, Case No. 16-cv-07235-RMI
Plaintiff,
ORDER ON MOTION FOR
v. DISQUALIFICATION
NATIONAL PARK RANGER JOEL Re: Dkt. No. 70 LEACHMAN, et al., 12 Defendants. 13 This case was remanded by the Court of Appeals for two purposes. First, the appellate court directed the undersigned to transfer the case such that a district judge could decide whether or not Plaintiff should have been permitted to withdraw her consent to proceed before a magistrate judge; and, second, if the district judge were to deny Plaintiff’s motion to withdraw her consent, then the case would once again be assigned to the undersigned for the articulation of reasons for a prior denial of Plaintiff’s disqualification motion. See Mem. Op. (dkt. 110) at 3. In December of 2020, the undersigned entered an order directing the Clerk of Court to reassign the case to a district judge such as to effectuate the appellate court’s…