Southern California Alliance of POTWs et al., v. United States Environmental Protection Agency et al

Filing 105

RELATED CASE ORDER signed by District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr on 1/17/17 ORDERING that the action denominated 2:16-cv-02960-JAM KJN be reassigned to Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. for all further proceedings, and any dates currently set in 2:16-cv-02960-JAM-KJN are hereby VACATED. The Clerk of the Court is to issue the Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order. Henceforth, the caption on documents filed in the reassigned shall be shown as 2:16-cv-02960-MCE-DB. (Becknal, R)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE
OF PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT
WORKS; and CENTRAL VALLEY
CLEAN WATER ASSOCIATION,
Plaintiffs,

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v.

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No. 2:14-cv-01513-MCE-DB

RELATED CASE ORDER
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY; and ALEXIS
STRAUSS, ACTING REGIONAL
ADMINISTRATOR, UNITED STATES
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY, REGION IX,

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Defendants.

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The Court has received the Notice of Related Case filed on January 5, 2017.

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

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IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the action denominated 2:16-cv-02960-JAMKJN be reassigned to Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. for all further proceedings, and

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any dates currently set in 2:16-cv-02960-JAM-KJN are hereby VACATED. The Clerk of

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the Court is to issue the Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order. Henceforth, the caption on

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documents filed in the reassigned shall be shown as 2:16-cv-02960-MCE-DB.

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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court make appropriate
adjustment in the assignment of cases to compensate for this reassignment.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: January 17, 2017

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MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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