All petitions, applications, complaints and motions to vacate or modify sentences
filed by, or on behalf of, prisoners are assigned to the magistrate judges. The
magistrate judges are authorized to consider the record and do all things proper to
recommend the disposition of any dispositive motions filed in these actions and to
decide any nondispositive motions, including, without limitation, conducting a hearing
and entering into the record a written order setting forth the disposition of the motions or
recommendation for disposition.
