Whitley v. Siemens Industry, Inc.

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RELATED CASE ORDER signed by Chief Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. on 2/24/2015 RELATING this case to the action denominated 2:15-cv-00303 GEB AC; REASSIGNING the related case to Chief Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. and Magistrate Judge Dale A. Drozd for all further proceedings; VACATING all dates currently set in the related case; DIRECTING the Clerk of Court to make the appropriate adjustment in the assignment of civil cases to compensate for this reassignment. (Michel, G.)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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JARRID J. WHITLEY, on behalf of
himself and others similarly situated,
Plaintiff,

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v.

No. 2:14-cv-00099 MCE-DAD

RELATED CASE ORDER

SIEMENS INDUSTRY, INC., also
doing business as and referred to as
SIEMENS USA, SIEMENS
CORPORATION and SIEMENS,

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Defendant.

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JARRID J. WHITLEY, on behalf of
himself and others similarly situated,

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No. 2:15-cv-00303 GEB-AC

Plaintiff,
v.
SIEMENS INDUSTRY, INC., also
doing business as and referred to as
SIEMENS USA, SIEMENS
CORPORATION and SIEMENS,
Defendant.

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The Court has received the Notice of Related Case filed on February 9, 2015.

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Examination of the above-entitled civil actions reveals that these actions are

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related within the meaning of Local Rule 123(a) (E.D. Cal. 1997). The actions involve
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many of the same defendants and are based on the same or similar claims, the same

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property transaction or event, similar questions of fact and the same questions of law,

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and would therefore entail a substantial duplication of labor if heard by different judges.

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Accordingly, the assignment of the matters to the same judge is likely to effect a

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substantial savings of judicial effort and is also likely to be convenient for the parties.

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The parties should be aware that relating the cases under Local Rule 123 merely

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has the result that both actions are assigned to the same judge; no consolidation of the

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action is effected. Under the regular practice of this court, related cases are generally

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assigned to the district judge and magistrate judge to whom the first filed action was

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assigned.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the action denominated 2:15-cv-00303 GEB-

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AC, Jarried J. Whitley v. Siemens Industry, Inc., etc. is reassigned to Chief Judge

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Morrison C. England, Jr. and Magistrate Judge Dale A. Drozd for all further proceedings,

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and any dates currently set in this reassigned case only are hereby VACATED. The

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Clerk of the Court is to issue an Order Requiring Joint Status Report. Henceforth, the

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caption on documents filed in the reassigned case shall be shown as 2:15-cv-00303-

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MCE-DAD.

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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court make appropriate
adjustment in the assignment of civil cases to compensate for this reassignment.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: February 24, 2015

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