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Nature of Suit Code: 423
Nature of Suit: Bankruptcy Withdrawal 28 USC 157
Cause of Action: 28:0157 Motion for Withdrawal of Reference

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

IN RE JOHN HOANG,

 Debtor.

IN RE JOHN HOANG, 

 Debtor.

Case No. 14-cv-02354-BLF 

Case No. 14-cv-02380-BLF

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY 

ACTIONS SHOULD NOT BE 

DISMISSED; AND TERMINATING 

MOTIONS TO WITHDRAW 

REFERENCE

The above-captioned cases involve an adversary proceeding, Case No. 13-05149-ASW, 

that Debtor John Hoang (“Hoang”) filed in his Chapter 13 bankruptcy action, Case No. 11-55197-

ASW. Hoang filed the adversary proceeding on October 23, 2013. See Adversary Complaint, 

ECF 1 in Case No. 13-05149-ASW; Adversary Complaint, ECF 107 in Case No. 11-55197-ASW. 

On May 21, 2014, while motions to dismiss the adversary complaint were pending before the 

bankruptcy court, several defendants (“Moving Parties”) moved to withdraw the reference of the 

adversary proceeding on the ground that it raised exclusively non-core issues under 28 U.S.C. § 

157. See Motion to Withdraw Reference, ECF Nos. 55 and 62 in Case No. 13-05149-ASW. The 

identical motion to withdraw appears to have been filed twice in the adversary proceeding, and it 

was transmitted twice to the district court, resulting the opening of both of the above-captioned 

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cases in the district court. See Motion to Withdraw Reference, ECF 1 in Case No. 14-cv-2354-

BLF; Motion to Withdraw Reference, ECF 1 in Case No. 14-cv-02380-BLF.

Both district court cases were assigned to the undersigned judge. Clerk’s Notices issued in 

both cases directing Moving Parties to notice their motions to withdraw for hearing before this 

Court pursuant to Civil Local Rule 7-2(a). See Clerk’s Notice, ECF 2 in Case No. 14-cv-02354-

BLF; Clerk’s Notice, ECF 3 in Case No. 14-cv-02380-BLF. Moving Parties did not notice their 

motions to withdraw for hearing, perhaps because the bankruptcy court granted the motions to 

dismiss the adversary complaint that had been pending before it. See Tentative Orders, ECF 50 

and 66 in Case No. 13-05149-ASW; Order on Motion to Dismiss Complaint for Failure to State a 

Claim Upon Which Relief Can be Granted, ECF 73 in Case No. 13-05149-ASW. The bankruptcy 

court granted Hoang leave to amend the adversary complaint; when Hoang failed to amend, the 

bankruptcy court dismissed the adversary proceeding in its entirety. See Order Dismissing 

Adversary Proceeding, ECF 75 in Case No. 13-05149-ASW.

The pendency of the motions to withdraw the reference in this Court did not stay the 

proceedings in the bankruptcy court. See Fed. R. Bankr. P. 5011(c) (“The filing of a motion for 

withdrawal of a case . . . shall not stay the administration of the case or any proceeding therein 

before the bankruptcy judge except that the bankruptcy judge may stay, on such terms and 

conditions as are proper, proceedings pending disposition of the motion.”). In light of Moving 

Parties’ apparent abandonment of their motions to withdraw the reference and the bankruptcy 

court’s dismissal of the adversary proceeding, the pending motions to withdraw are hereby 

TERMINATED.

The parties are hereby ORDERED to SHOW CAUSE, in writing and on or before October 

16, 2015, why the two cases pending before this Court – Case Nos. 14-cv-02354-BLF and 

14-cv-02380-BLF – should not be closed. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 18, 2015

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BETH LABSON FREEMAN

United States District Judge

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