Sabrina BARNETT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee

BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

Sabrina Barnett appeals the district court’s order denying her permission to withdraw her consent to a trial before a magistrate judge. She further contests the magistrate judge’s exclusion of fifteen witnesses submitted pursuant to a pretrial order. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that Barnett did not clearly and unambiguously consent to trial before a magistrate judge. As a result, the magistrate judge lacked jurisdiction to preside over this trial. We therefore remand the case to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. 1

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