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Paul W. Douglass v. United Services Automobile Association

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Superseded by statute
Court
Fifth Circuit
Citation
79 F.3d 1415
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
1,302 of 1,302
Citing cases (total)
8,054
Treatment dates
2016
Superseded by statute
A reviewed court treats this case as superseded by later legislation. Douglass v. United Services Automobile Association is superseded by statute in part: all 1,302 flagged citations have been read, with the one confirmed treatment listed below. The amendment to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1) expanded Douglass's objection period from ten days to fourteen but left its waiver and plain-error rule intact.
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The other reviewed opinions applied the surviving rule, repeated that statutory history, reported Douglass's own treatment of earlier Fifth Circuit decisions, or used nearby adverse language for unrelated authorities.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

8,054 later cases cite Paul W. Douglass v. United Services Automobile Association; 1,302 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

Superseded by statute

  • The Fifth Circuit held that amended Section 636(b)(1) expanded Douglass's period for objecting to a magistrate judge's recommendation from ten days to fourteen, while leaving the rest of its holding intact.

    Mason v. Fremont Investment & Loan · Fifth Circuit · filed

    Douglass v. United Servs. Auto. Ass’n, 79 F.3d 1415, 1428 (5th Cir. 1996) (en banc), superseded by statute on other grounds, ... U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). ... U.S.C. § 636(b)(1) expanded the period during which a party could object to the magistrate judge’s recommendation from 10 days after service to 14 days. It otherwise left the holding of Douglass intact.
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