Local Rule LR PL P 2: Prisoner Cases Assigned to Magistrate Judges

LR PL P 2. Prisoner Cases Assigned to Magistrate Judges.

All petitions, applications, complaints and motions to vacate or modify sentences filed by, or on behalf of, prisoners are assigned to the magistrate judges. The magistrate judges are authorized to consider the record and do all things proper to recommend the disposition of any dispositive motions filed in these actions and to decide any nondispositive motions, including, without limitation, conducting a hearing and entering into the record a written order setting forth the disposition of the motions or recommendation for disposition.