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Rethinking Rule 59'S Appellate 'Waiver' For Magistrate Judge Adjudication Post-Olano, Meehan Rasch
Rethinking Rule 59'S Appellate 'Waiver' For Magistrate Judge Adjudication Post-Olano, Meehan Rasch
Meehan Rasch
In 1985, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Thomas v. Arn that a federal court of appeals may establish a rule that failure to file objections to a magistrate judge’s report and recommendations "waives" both the right to further review by the district court and the right to appeal the judgment to the court of appeals. The Arn majority determined that such a rule did not remove the essential attributes of the judicial power from the Article III court or elevate non-life-tenured magistrate judges to the functional equivalents of Article III judges. Rather, loss of the right to any Article …