Local Rule 72.3: DISPOSITIVE PRETRIAL MATTERS

72.3 DISPOSITIVE PRETRIAL MATTERS. In accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B), magistrate judges are hereby authorized and empowered at the election of the district judge to conduct hearings, including evidentiary hearings, and to submit to the judges of this court PROPOSED FINDINGS OF FACT AND RECOMMENDATIONS for the disposition by said judges of the following motions: a motion of injunctive relief, for judgment on the pleadings, for summary judgment, to dismiss or quash an indictment or information made by the defendant, to suppress evidence in a criminal case, to dismiss or to permit maintenance of a class action, to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, and to involuntarily dismiss an action.