# The Role of the U.S. Magistrate Judge

Federal Judicial Center ava19954vnb1 -- 2461-V/96 (1996) The Role of the U.S. Magistrate Judge In this video, Judge D. Brock Hornby (D. Me.) provides an overview of the role U.S. magistrate judges play in district courts. He discusses the primary sources of magistrate judge authority in civil and criminal cases; the common functions of magistrate judges in most district courts, as well as some novel uses; methods of assigning magistrate judges; and standards of review of magistrate judges' decisions. For use in the orientation of magistrate judges and district judges.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1996
- By: Federal Judicial Center
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.ntis.ava19954vnb1)
- Licence or status: [Public domain (Creative Commons dedication)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.