Opinion
C 11-4390 MMC C 11-5106 JSW C 11-5109 JSW
11-29-2011
Flagstar Bank, FSB v. Simmons Simmons v. Flagstar, FSB Flagstar Bank, FSB v. Simmons
RELATED CASE ORDER
A Sua Sponte Referral for Purposes of Determinating Relationship of Cases has been filed requesting the undersigned determine whether the following cases are related within the meaning of Civil L.R. 3-12(a):
ORDER
On the basis of the material submitted to the Court, as the Judge assigned to the earliest filed case, I find that the cases:
[ ] ARE NOT RELATED as defined by Civil L.R. 3-12(a).
[ X ] ARE RELATED as defined by Civil L.R. 3-12(a). Pursuant to Civil L.R. 3-12(f)(3), the Clerk of Court is ordered to reassign the later-filed actions to the undersigned. The parties are instructed that all future filings in the later-filed action are to bear the initials MMC immediately after the case number. All matters presently scheduled for hearing in the reassigned case are vacated and must be renoticed for hearing before the undersigned.
MAXINE M. CHESNEY
United States District Judge