M. v. Anthem Blue Cross Life and Health Insurance Company

Filing 49

ORDER RELATING CASE. Case No. C12-02114 JCS is related to Case No. C11-03815 LB. Signed by Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler on 7/12/2012. (lblc2, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 7/12/2012)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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Northern District of California

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San Francisco Division
SERENA M.,

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For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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Plaintiff,

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No. C 11-03815 LB
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v.
ANTHEM BLUE CROSS LIFE AND
HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY,

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Defendant.
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This case, Serena M. v. Anthem Blue Cross Life and Health Insurance Company, No. C11-03815

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LB (N.D. Cal. Aug. 8, 2011) (“Serena M. I”), is an ERISA health insurance dispute between

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Plaintiff and her insurance company. At the July 12, 2012 Further Case Management Conference,

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the court learned that Plaintiff filed a second lawsuit against Defendant and that it was assigned to

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Magistrate Judge Spero. See Serena M. v. Anthem Blue Cross Life and Health Insurance Company,

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No. C12-02114 JCS (N.D. Cal. Apr. 27, 2012) (“Serena M. II”).1 Upon review of the complaint in

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that case, the court finds that it is related to the instant one.

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Counsel are instructed that all future filings in Serena M. II are to bear the initials of the

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Under this district’s Civil Local Rule 3-12, the parties are supposed to file in the earliestfiled case an administrative motion to consider whether the cases should be related. See N.D. Cal.
Civ. L.R. 3-12(b). The parties are directed to review Local Rule 3-12 and are ORDERED to comply
with it in the future.
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undersigned immediately after the case number. The case management conference in Serena M. II

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will be rescheduled by the court. The parties shall adjust the dates for the conference, disclosures

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and report required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16 and 26 accordingly. Unless otherwise

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ordered, any dates for hearing noticed motions are vacated and must be re-noticed by the moving

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party before the newly assigned judge; any deadlines set by the ADR Local Rules remain in effect;

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and any deadlines established in a case management order continue to govern, except dates for

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appearance in court, which will be rescheduled by the court.

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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: July 12, 2012
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LAUREL BEELER
United States Magistrate Judge

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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