Erickson Productions Inc v. Kraig R Kast

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 ERICKSON PRODUCTIONS INC, et al., Case No. 13-cv-05472-DMR (RS) Plaintiffs, 11 v. ORDER DENYING MOTION TO WITHDRAW CONSENT TO KRAIG RUDINGER KAST, et al., MAGISTRATE JUDGE JURISDICTION Defendants.

15 Pro se Defendant Kraig Kast has filed a motion to withdraw consent to magistrate judge jurisdiction; the motion has been referred to the undersigned as the Duty Judge. By way of procedural background, the parties originally consented to magistrate judge jurisdiction in January 2014. See Dkts. 26, 27. A jury trial was held before a magistrate judge in April 2015, and judgment was entered against Defendant. Four years later, a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded. See Dkt. 347. On remand, the case was reassigned to a different magistrate judge,1 and judgment was again entered against Defendant, though without a jury trial. On April 5, 2023, the…