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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Insurance Contract

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ALLIED PROPERTY AND CASUALTY 

INSURANCE COMPANY, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

JESSIE HERNANDEZ dba TARP 

SERVICES, 

Defendant. 

No. 2:11-cv-00740 MCE-KJN 

ATAIN SPECIALTY INSURANCE 

COMPANY fka USF INSURANCE 

COMPANY, a Michigan corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

JESSIE HERNANDEZ dba TARP 

SERVICES, 

Defendant. 

No. 2:13-cv-00530 MCE-DAD 

ORDER 

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The Court received the Notice of Related Cases filed November 19, 2013. 

Examination of the above-entitled civil actions reveals that these actions are 

related within the meaning of Local Rule 123(a) (E.D. Cal. 1997). The actions involve 

many of the same defendants and are based on the same or similar claims, the same 

property transaction or event, similar questions of fact and the same questions of law, 

and would therefore entail a substantial duplication of labor if heard by different judges. 

Accordingly, the assignment of the matters to the same judge is likely to affect 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 both actions are assigned to the same judge; no consolidation of the 

action is affected. Under the regular practice of this court, related cases are generally 

assigned to the district judge and magistrate judge to whom the first filed action was 

assigned. 

Because the cases are already assigned to the same district judge, this Order is 

issued to reassign the case from Magistrate Judge Dale A. Drozd to Magistrate Judge 

Kendall J. Newman for all further proceedings. 

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the action denominated No. 2:13-cv-00530 

MCE-DAD, ATAIN Specialty Insurance Company v. Jessie Hernandez is reassigned 

from Magistrate Judge Drozd to Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman. Henceforth, the 

caption on documents filed in the reassigned case shall be shown as No. 2:13-cv-00530-

MCE-KJN. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: January 3, 2014 

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