Can a court of appeals overturn a finding that a magistrate judge's finding was wrong?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Martino v. Popoff, 20-35502 (9th Cir. 2021):

1. Martino argues that the magistrate judge's findings, which were adopted by the district court, were clearly erroneous. Not so. "If the district court's account of the evidence is plausible in light of the record viewed in its entirety, the court of appeals may not reverse it even though convinced that had it been sitting as the trier of fact, it would have weighed the evidence differently." Anderson v. City of Bessemer City, 470 U.S. 564, 573-74 (1985). Thus, "[w]here there are two permissible views of the evidence, the factfinder's choice between them cannot be clearly erroneous." Id. at 574.

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