Mealey's (January 17, 2018, 12:48 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 16 denied a petition for writ of certiorari by Wisconsin’s Labor and Industry Review Commission seeking to overturn a decision by the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that found that a magistrate judge lacks authority to enter final judgment when the unserved defendant has not consented to a magistrate judge’s exercise of authority (Labor and Industry Review Commission of the State of Wisconsin v. Tracey Coleman, No. 17-579, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. LEXIS 650)....