Roadrunner Intermodal Services, LLC v. T.G.S. Transportation, Inc.

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ORDER RELATING and REASSIGNING Cases, signed by District Judge Dale A. Drozd on 9/13/17. (Marrujo, C)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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ROADRUNNER INTERMODAL
SERVICES, LLC,
Plaintiff,

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T.G.S. TRANSPORTATION, INC.,
Defendant.
No. 1:17-cv-01207-LJO-SAB
JEFFREY COX,

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ORDER RELATING AND REASSIGNING
CASES

v.

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No. 1:17-cv-01056-DAD-BAM

Plaintiff,
v.
ROADRUNNER INTERMODAL
SERVICES, LLC, et al.,
Defendants.

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On September 8, 2017, T.G.S. Transportation, Inc., the defendant in case number 1:17-cv-

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01056-DAD-BAM, filed an amended notice of related case. (Doc. No. 23.) Similarly, on the

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same date, plaintiff in Cox v. Roadrunner Intermodal Services, LLC et al., Case No. 1:17-cv-

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01207-LJO-SAB, filed a notice of related case. (Doc. No. 3.) The court’s review of the

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complaints in these cases shows they are related within the meaning of Local Rule 123(a), as they

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involve similar parties and related questions of law and fact. Accordingly, assignment of the
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actions to the undersigned and to Magistrate Judge Barbara A. McAuliffe will promote efficiency

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and economy for the court and parties.

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An order relating cases under this court’s Local Rule 123 merely assigns them to the same

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district judge and magistrate judge, and does not consolidate the cases. The local rules of this

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district authorize the judge with the lowest numbered case to order the reassignment of any higher

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numbered cases to himself or herself, upon determining that this assignment is likely to effect a

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savings of judicial effort. L.R. 123(c). Such good cause appearing here, the court orders that Cox

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v. Roadrunner Intermodal Services, LLC, et al., Case No. 1:17-cv-01207-LJO-SAB, be

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reassigned to U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd and U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbra A. McAuliffe.

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Accordingly, documents filed in the above-referenced actions shall bear the following
new case numbers:

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1:17-cv-01056-DAD-BAM

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1:17-cv-01207-DAD-BAM

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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated:

September 13, 2017
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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