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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RICHARD TUSCANY,

Plaintiff,

v.

ELENA VILLALOBOS, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 16-cv-07373-JCS 

(also filed in Case No. 16-cv-06252-JD)

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 Monterey, where it bore the case number 16CV001985. This is the second time that 

Defendants have removed Monterey County Superior Court case number 16CV001985 to this 

Court. The previous removal, this Court’s case number 16-cv-06252, was initially assigned to the 

Honorable Donna Ryu and reassigned to the Honorable James Donato. The Court remanded the 

case to the Monterey County Superior Court on December 12, 2016, and Cruz filed his second 

notice of removal—the present case, this Court’s number 16-cv-07373—on December 28, 2016.

Because both removals arise from the same state court action, and because Defendants’ 

two notices of removal are nearly identical, this action is REFERRED to Judge Donato pursuant to 

Rule 3-12(c) for a determination of whether this action is related to Tuscany v. Villalobos, No. 

3:16-cv-06252-JD (N.D. Cal.). Any party may file a response, opposition, or statement in support 

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of relating the cases no later than January 9, 2017.

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 3, 2017

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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 and that an order be entered requiring pre-filing review of any 

further removal. If Judge Donato 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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