Opinion
CIV. NO. 2:10-2751 WBS GGH CIV. NO. 2:10-2846 WBS GGH CIV. NO. 2:11-02497 JAM EFB
09-23-2011
CENTURY 21 REAL ESTATE LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company formerly known as Century 21 Real Estate Corporation, Plaintiff, v. ALL PROFESSIONAL REALTY, INC., a California corporation doing business as CENTURY 21 ALL PROFESSIONAL; STEVEN M. WRIGHT, an individual; and CAROL WRIGHT, an individual, Defendants. STEVE WRIGHT, CAROL WRIGHT and ALL PROFESSIONAL REALTY, INC., Plaintiffs, v. CENTURY 21 REAL ESTATE LLC, and DOES 1-100, inclusive, Defendant. CENTURY 21 REAL ESTATE LLC, Plaintiff, v. ALL PROFESSIONAL HAWAII REALTY, INC., f/d/b/a Century 21 All Professional, JOHN SHERMAN, STEVE M. WRIGHT, and CAROL WRIGHT. Defendants.
Examination of the above-entitled actions reveals that these actions are related within the meaning of Local Rule 123(a) because the cases involve substantially similar parties and are based on similar claims. Accordingly, the assignment of the matters to the same judge is likely to effect a substantial saving of judicial effort and is also likely to be convenient for the parties.
The parties should be aware that relating the cases under Local Rule 123 merely has the result that both actions are assigned to the same judge; no consolidation of the actions is effected. Under the regular practice of this court, related cases are generally assigned to the judge and magistrate to whom the first filed action was assigned.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the actions denominated Century 21 Real Estate LLC v. All Professional Realty, Inc. et al., Civ. No. 2:10-02751 WBS GGH, which has been previously consolidated with Wright et al. v. Century 21 Real Estate LLC et al. , Civ. No. 2:10-02846 WBS GGH, and Century 21 Real Estate, LLC v. All Professional Hawaii Realty, Inc. et al., Civ. No. 2:11-02497 JAM EFB, be, and the same hereby are, deemed related and the case denominated Century 21 Real Estate, LLC v. All Professional Hawaii Realty, Inc. et al., Civ. No. 2:11-02497 JAM EFB, shall be reassigned to the Honorable WILLIAM B. SHUBB and Magistrate Gregory G. Hollows for all further proceedings. Any dates currently set in the reassigned case only are hereby VACATED. Henceforth, the caption on documents filed in the reassigned case shall be shown as Century 21 Real Estate, LLC v. All Professional Hawaii Realty, Inc. et al., Civ. No. 2:11-02497 WBS GGH.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court make appropriated adjustment in the assignment of civil cases to compensate for this reassignment.
WILLIAM B. SHUBB
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE