Legal Opinion
Thomas v. Whitworth
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 5, 1998No. 96-8482PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-Appellant Albert Thomas filed this lawsuit seeking damages and injunctive relief for alleged civil rights violations and other allegedly unlawful acts by the Defendant-Appellees. After the completion of discovery, the ease was set for jury trial before the presiding district court judge. Over Thomas’s objection, a United States Magistrate Judge supervised the jury selection process and selected a panel of jurors to hear the case. That jury eventually returned a verdict in favor of the Defendants. In this appeal, Thomas argues that a magistrate judge cannot…
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