Opinion
RELATED CASE ORDER
LAWRENCE K. KARLTON, Senior District Judge.
The court has received the Notice of Related Cases filed December 6, 2013. Examination of the above-entitled actions reveals that both actions are related within the meaning of Local Rule 123(a), E.D. Cal. (2013). For the reasons set forth in the government's Notice of Related Cases, the assignment of the matters to the same judge is likely to effect a substantial savings 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 the 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 to whom the first filed action was assigned.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the action denominated 2:13-CV-2343 JAM/KJN be, and the same hereby is, reassigned to Judge Lawrence K. Karlton for all further proceedings. Henceforth the caption on all documents filed in the reassigned case shall be shown as 2:13-CV-2343 LKK/KJN.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court make appropriate adjustment in the assignment of civil cases to compensate for this reassignment.
IT IS SO ORDERED.