Securities And Exchange Commission v. JSW Financial Inc. et al

Filing 32

ORDER: Cases are not related. Cases C 11-1356 SC Securities and Exchange Commission v JSW Financial, Inc., et al and CR 11-0393 WHA USA v James Stanley Ward, Edward George Locker, Richard Ferguson Tipton, and David Ching Hsiu Lin. Signed by Judge Samuel Conti on 7/19/11. (tdm, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 7/19/2011) Modified on 7/19/2011 (tdm, COURT STAFF).

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
RELATED CASE ORDER
A Notice of Related Cases has been filed that the following cases are related within the
meaning of Crim. L.R. 8-1(b):
C 11-1356 SC
CR 11-0393 WHA

Securities and Exchange Commission v JSW Financial, Inc., et al
USA v James Stanley Ward, Edward George Locker, Richard Ferguson
Tipton, and David Ching Hsiu Lin

ORDER
The time for filing a statement to support or oppose the Notice has passed. On the basis of
the material submitted to the Court, as the Judge assigned to the earliest filed case, I find that the
cases:
[X]

ARE NOT RELATED as defined by Crim. L.R. 8-1(b).

[ ]
ARE RELATED as defined by Crim. L.R. 8-1(b). I find, however, that
reassignment to me of the action(s) currently assigned to another judge is not warranted.
[ ]
ARE RELATED as defined by Crim. L.R. 8-1(b). Pursuant to Crim. L.R. 81(e), the Clerk of Court is ordered to reassign the later-filed action to the undersigned. Counsel are
instructed that all future filings are to bear the initials SC immediately after the case number. All
matters presently scheduled for hearing in the reassigned case(s) are vacated and must be renoticed
for hearing before the undersigned.
DATED: July 19, 2011
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I certify that on the date stated below, I lodged a copy of this order with each judicial officer
and I mailed a copy to each counsel of record in the cases listed above.
Richard W. Wieking, Clerk
DATED: July 19, 2011
Copies to: Courtroom Deputies

By: T. De Martini
Deputy Clerk