72.2: Assignment of Duties to Magistrate Judges
Local Rules of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio — Civil Rules
72.2 Assignment of Duties to Magistrate Judges Individual District Judges at each location of the Court may, in their discretion, request Magistrate Judges to perform such duties as are not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States. Nothing in this Rule shall prevent a District Judge from filing orders establishing procedures governing the formal reference of cases to Magistrate Judges by individual District Judges or the District Judges of a particular location of this Court.