Filed: Apr. 17, 2017
Latest Update: Apr. 17, 2017
Summary: ORDER RELATING CASES Re: Dkt. No. 54. LUCY H. KOH , District Judge . On April 17, 2017, the United States filed a motion to relate the case United States v. Kumar, Case No. 5:17-CV-1853-NC, filed April 3, 2017, to the instant case, United States v. Kumar, Case No. 5:15-CV-05780-LHK, filed December 15, 2017. The Court finds that the actions "concern substantially the same parties, property, transaction or event" and it is "likely that there will be an unduly burdensome duplication of la
Summary: ORDER RELATING CASES Re: Dkt. No. 54. LUCY H. KOH , District Judge . On April 17, 2017, the United States filed a motion to relate the case United States v. Kumar, Case No. 5:17-CV-1853-NC, filed April 3, 2017, to the instant case, United States v. Kumar, Case No. 5:15-CV-05780-LHK, filed December 15, 2017. The Court finds that the actions "concern substantially the same parties, property, transaction or event" and it is "likely that there will be an unduly burdensome duplication of lab..
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ORDER RELATING CASES
Re: Dkt. No. 54.
LUCY H. KOH, District Judge.
On April 17, 2017, the United States filed a motion to relate the case United States v. Kumar, Case No. 5:17-CV-1853-NC, filed April 3, 2017, to the instant case, United States v. Kumar, Case No. 5:15-CV-05780-LHK, filed December 15, 2017. The Court finds that the actions "concern substantially the same parties, property, transaction or event" and it is "likely that there will be an unduly burdensome duplication of labor and expense or conflicting results if the cases are conducted before different Judges." Civil. L.R. 3-12(a).
United States v. Kumar, Case No. 5:15-CV-05780-LHK, is the first-filed case and thus has the lowest case number. Under Civil L.R. 3-12(f)(3), "[i]f any Judge decides that any of the cases are related, . . . the Clerk shall reassign all related higher-numbered cases to that Judge." Accordingly, the Clerk shall relate the later-filed case, United States v. Kumar, Case No. 5:17-CV-1853-NC, to the first-filed case, United States v. Kumar, Case No. 5:15-CV-05780-LHK.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
