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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Civil Rights Act

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BALDINI REAL ESTATE, INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

FLORO LORENZO CRUZ, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 15-cv-04231-JCS 

(also filed in Case No. 15-cv-2932-YGR)

ORDER OF SUA SPONTE REFERRAL 

AS TO WHETHER CASES ARE 

RELATED

Civil Local Rule 3-12(c) provides that “[w]henever a Judge believes that a case pending 

before that Judge is related to another case, the Judge may refer the case to the Judge assigned to 

the lowest-numbered case with a request that the Judge assigned to the lowest-numbered case 

consider whether the cases are related.” 

This unlawful detainer action was removed from California Superior Court for the County 

of San Mateo, where it bore the case number CLJ211119. This is the second time that Defendant 

Floro Lorenzo Cruz has removed San Mateo County Superior Court case number CLJ211119 to 

this Court. The previous removal, this Court’s case number 15-cv-2932, was assigned to the 

Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. The Court remanded the case to the San Mateo County

Superior Court on August 12, 2015, and Cruz filed his second notice of removal—the present 

case, this Court’s number 15-cv-4231—on September 17, 2015.

Because both removals arise from the same state court action, and because Cruz’s two 

notices of removal present similar arguments, this action is REFERRED to Judge Gonzalez 

Rogers pursuant to Rule 3-12(c) for a determination of whether this action is related to Baldini

Real Estate Inc. v. Cruz, No. 15-cv-2932-YGR (N.D. Cal.). Any party may file a response, 

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opposition, or statement in support of relating the cases no later than October 20, 2015.

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 16, 2015

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JOSEPH C. SPERO

Chief Magistrate Judge

 

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The undersigned has also issued a Report and Recommendation in this case, recommending that 

the case once again be remanded, that Cruz be required to pay Baldini’s attorneys’ fees, and that 

an order be entered requiring pre-filing review of any further removal. If Judge Gonzalez Rogers 

determines that the cases are not related, this case will be reassigned to a randomly selected United 

States district judge for further proceedings, including action on those recommendations.

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