Angelo v. Touch Worldwide Holdings Limited et al

Filing 7

MINUTE ORDER to Consolidate cases. Court ORDERS the two cases, C17-0970-JCC and C17-1056-JCC be CONSOLIDATED. Cause number C17-0970-JCC shall be CLOSED and the documents already filed and all future documents filed regarding this matter shall be f iled under cause number C17-1056-JCC. The Clerk is DIRECTED to docket the cross-appeal filed in C17-0970-JCC in C17-1056-JCC. Appellant/Cross-Appellants Brief due by 9/19/2017, Appellee/Cross-Appellees Response Brief due by 10/19/2017, Appellant/Cross-Appellants Reply Brief due by 11/2/2017. Authorized by U.S. District Judge John C Coughenour. (SWT)

THE HONORABLE JOHN C. COUGHENOUR

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON
AT SEATTLE

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JAMES ALLEN ANGELO,

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Appellant,
v.

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CASE NO. C17-1056-JCC

TOUCH WORLDWIDE HOLDINGS,
LTD. AND TOUCH WORLDWIDE LLC,

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Appellees.

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TOUCH WORLDWIDE HOLDINGS,
LTD. AND TOUCH WORLDWIDE LLC,
CASE NO. C17-0970-JCC

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Appellants,
v.

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JAMES ALLEN ANGELO,

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MINUTE ORDER
CONSOLIDATING CASES

Appellee.

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The following Minute Order is made by direction of the Court, the Honorable John C.
Coughenour, United States District Judge:

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This matter comes before the Court sua sponte. Both of the above-captioned bankruptcy

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appeals arise out of the bankruptcy court proceedings culminating in an order dismissing Debtor

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James Allen Angelo’s Chapter 13 petition on June 1, 2017. (See Case No. 16-bk-16391-CMA,

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Dkt. No. 80.) Mr. Angelo filed a notice of appeal with the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel on June

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12, 2017. (C17-1056-JCC, Dkt. No. 1.) Creditors Touch Worldwide Holdings, Ltd. and Touch

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Worldwide LLC (Touch) filed a cross-appeal and requested it be heard in the district court on

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June 26, 2017. (C17-0970-JCC, Dkt. No. 1.) The appeal was originally assigned to Judge Lasnik.

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(Id.) Touch also objected to Mr. Angelo’s appeal being heard by the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel

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and it was transferred to the district court and Judge Coughenour. Because the appeals were

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related, the case assigned to Judge Lasnik was reassigned to Judge Coughenour. (Id., Dkt. No. 2.)

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Although Mr. Angelo’s appeal has the higher case number at the district court, his appeal

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progressed further while it was with the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. The bankruptcy record on

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appeal has been filed and a briefing schedule set. (C17-1056-JCC, Dkt. No. 5.) Because the

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appeals are of the same order, the Court ORDERS the two cases, C17-0970-JCC and C17-1056-

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JCC be CONSOLIDATED. Cause number C17-0970-JCC shall be CLOSED and the documents

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already filed and all future documents filed regarding this matter shall be filed under cause

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number C17-1056-JCC. The cause number shall bear the following caption:

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_______________________________________
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JAMES ALLEN ANGELO,
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Appellant/
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Cross-Appellee,
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TOUCH WORLDWIDE HOLDINGS, LTD., )
and TOUCH WORLDWIDE LLC,
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Appellees/
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Cross-Appellants. )
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No. C17-1056-JCC

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The Clerk is DIRECTED to docket the cross-appeal filed in C17-0970-JCC in C17-1056-

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JCC. Because of this, there is no need for either party to submit any consolidated pleadings.

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The Court further adopts the briefing schedule already established for Mr. Angelo’s

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appeal and enters the following briefing schedule for both appellants and cross-appellants:

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Appellant/Cross-Appellants

September 19, 2017

Briefs due
Appellee/Cross-Appellees

October 19, 2017

Response Briefs due
Appellant/Cross-Appellants

November 2, 2017

Reply Briefs due

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DATED this 24th day of August 2017.

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William M. McCool
Clerk of Court

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/s/Paula McNabb
Deputy Clerk

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