Filed: Apr. 04, 2018
Latest Update: Apr. 04, 2018
Summary: OMNIBUS TRANSFER ORDER JAMES C. MAHAN , District Judge . RICHARD F. BOULWARE , District Judge . ANDREW P. GORDON , District Judge . JENNIFER A. DORSEY , District Judge . MIRANDA M. DU , District Judge . Plaintiff ME2 Productions, Inc., through attorney Charles Rainey, Esq., has filed 25 copyright-infringement lawsuits in this district against various named and doe defendants, alleging infringement of its copyright to a motion picture entitled Mechanic: Resurrection. The allegation
Summary: OMNIBUS TRANSFER ORDER JAMES C. MAHAN , District Judge . RICHARD F. BOULWARE , District Judge . ANDREW P. GORDON , District Judge . JENNIFER A. DORSEY , District Judge . MIRANDA M. DU , District Judge . Plaintiff ME2 Productions, Inc., through attorney Charles Rainey, Esq., has filed 25 copyright-infringement lawsuits in this district against various named and doe defendants, alleging infringement of its copyright to a motion picture entitled Mechanic: Resurrection. The allegations..
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OMNIBUS TRANSFER ORDER
JAMES C. MAHAN, District Judge.
RICHARD F. BOULWARE, District Judge.
ANDREW P. GORDON, District Judge.
JENNIFER A. DORSEY, District Judge.
MIRANDA M. DU, District Judge.
Plaintiff ME2 Productions, Inc., through attorney Charles Rainey, Esq., has filed 25 copyright-infringement lawsuits in this district against various named and doe defendants, alleging infringement of its copyright to a motion picture entitled Mechanic: Resurrection. The allegations in each of these cases are nearly identical, save for the different IP addresses through which ME2 claims that the defendants used to access the film.
Having reviewed these cases, the judges of this district have concluded that judicial economy will be served by transferring all of these ME2 Mechanic: Resurrection cases to a single District Court Judge and Magistrate Judge. Accordingly, THE UNDERSIGNED JUDGES—exercising their discretion under local rule 42-1(a) and the court's inherent power to control the management of the docket and in order to foster judicial economy—HEREBY ORDER each of these cases to be TRANSFERRED to Judge James C. Mahan (who was assigned the earliest open case, 2:16-cv-02384-JCM-PAL) and Magistrate Judge Nancy Koppe for all further proceedings:
2:16-cv-02513-APG-NJK
2:16-cv-02563-APG-NJK
2:16-cv-02660-RFB-CWH
2:16-cv-02662-JAD-CWH
2:16-cv-02783-APG-CWH
2:16-cv-02788-RFB-PAL
2:16-cv-02875-RFB-GWF
2:17-cv-00049-JAD-VCF
2:17-cv-00114-APG-NJK
2:17-cv-00123-JAD-CWH
2:17-cv-00124-JAD-CWH
2:17-cv-00665-JAD-GWF
2:17-cv-00666-APG-VCF
2:17-cv-00667-MMD-NJK
2:17-cv-00676-RFB-PAL
2:17-cv-00722-JAD-CWH
2:17-cv-00723-APG-PAL
FURTHER ORDERED that plaintiff must file a copy of this order in any future case that it files in this district that is related to the Mechanic: Resurrection copyright.
