Hyun et al v. The Boeing Company et al

Filing 10

SUA SPONTE JUDICIAL REFERRAL FOR PURPOSES OF DETERMINING RELATIONSHIP OF CASES. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 3-12(c), the undersigned respectfully refers the above-captioned action to Judge Gonzalez Rogers for the purposes of determining relationship to In Re Air Crash At San Francisco, California on July 6, 2013, No. C13-02497 YGR. Signed by Judge Laurel Beeler on 3/11/2014. (lblc2, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 3/11/2014)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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Northern District of California

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San Francisco Division
SOOK YOUNG HYUN, et al.,

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For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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Plaintiffs,

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v.

No. C14-01057 LB
SUA SPONTE JUDICIAL REFERRAL
FOR PURPOSES OF DETERMINING
RELATIONSHIP OF CASES

THE BOEING COMPANY, et al.,

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Defendants.
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On January 29, 2014, Plaintiffs Sook Young Hyun and Hyun Seob Oh filed the instant action

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against Defendants The Boeing Company, City and County of San Francisco, and Asiana Airlines,

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Inc., in San Francisco Superior Court for damages for personal injuries resulting from the crash of

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Asiana Airlines Flight 214 into a seawall on San Francisco Bay on July 6, 2013. Notice of Removal,

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ECF No. 1, ¶ 11. Defendants removed the action to federal court on March 6, 2014. See id. The

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action is assigned to the undersigned.

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On December 12, 2013, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation granted

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centralization of judicial proceedings resulting from this plane crash to the Northern District of

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Citations are to the Electronic Case File (“ECF”) with pin cites to the electronicallygenerated page numbers at the top of the document.
C14-01057 LB
REFERRAL FOR RELATIONSHIP DETERMINATION

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California. In Re Air Crash at San Francisco, California, on July 6, 2013, No. C13-02497 YGR,

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Transfer Order, ECF No. 1. All the member and related actions are assigned to Judge Gonzalez

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Rogers. In its notice of removal, Boeing asks for assignment to Judge Gonzalez Rogers as “this case

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concerns substantially the same parties, property, transaction or event as cases already found by this

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court to be related and assigned to Judge Gonzalez Rogers.” Notice of Removal, ECF No. 1, ¶ 2.

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After reviewing the complaints in these cases, it appears that the actions concern substantially

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the same parties and event. Accordingly, pursuant to Civil Local Rule 3-12(c), the undersigned

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respectfully refers the above-captioned action to Judge Gonzalez Rogers for the purposes of

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determining relationship to In Re Air Crash At San Francisco, California on July 6, 2013, No. C13-

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For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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02497 YGR.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: March 11, 2014
_______________________________
LAUREL BEELER
United States Magistrate Judge

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C14-01057 LB
REFERRAL FOR RELATIONSHIP DETERMINATION

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