Britt v. Simi Valley Unified School District
Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.
Status
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The later opinions applied Britt's surviving informed-final-determination rule or its de novo-review rule positively, or merely reported Reyna-Tapia's en banc act while using “overruled” for a party's objections.
138 later cases cite Britt v. Simi Valley Unified School District; 138 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.
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Treatments
Overruled in part
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The en banc court overruled Britt's requirement that a district judge independently review a magistrate judge's findings and recommendations when no party objects, while leaving Britt's separate appellate-preservation rule intact.
United States v. Reyna-Tapia · Ninth Circuit (en banc) · filed
Neither the Constitution nor the statute requires a district judge to review, de novo, findings and recommendations that the parties themselves accept as correct.
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