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192819P.pdf 12/31/2020 Robert Devine v. Warden Jeffie Walker
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-2819
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Texarkana
[PUBLISHED] [Stras, Author, with Kelly and Wollman, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. Plaintiff, a pretrial detainee, filed suit
against jail staff and when he was transferred to a facility in Texas,
some of the defendants asked the magistrate judge assigned to hear
pretrial matters in the case to stay the case because of the difficulty of
scheduling plaintiff's out-of-state deposition; the magistrate judge
granted the stay and plaintiff filed a document which, in substance, asked
the district court for relief from the magistrate judge's stay order; this
motion was never acted upon and plaintiff appealed. Held, this court does
not have jurisdiction to hear an appeal from a magistrate judge's order on
a nondispositive pretrial order, and the appeal is dismissed for lack of
jurisdiction.