# Role of the U.S. Magistrate Judge

Federal Judicial Center gov.ntis.ava20677vnb1 2461-V/98 Role of the U.S. Magistrate Judge Judge D. Brock Hornby (D.Maine) 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 use methods of assigning magistrate judges; and standards of review of magistrate judgesâ decisions. The 1998 edition replaces the 1996 edition of the program and incorporates post-1996 changes.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1998
- By: Federal Judicial Center
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.ntis.ava20677vnb1)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (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)

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