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Nature of Suit Code: 362
Nature of Suit: Medical Malpractice
Cause of Action: 28:1442 Petition for Removal

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For the Northern District of California

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ORDER

UNITED 

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For the Northern District of California

NITED 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

Northern District of California

San Francisco Division

B.M., a minor by and through his guardian ad

litem DAVID MONES,

Plaintiff,

v.

ANTHONY LIM, et al.,

Defendants.

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No. C 14-05257 LB

ORDER CONTINUING THE

HEARING ON THE UNITED

STATES’S MOTION TO DISMISS

On May 30, 2013, Plaintiff filed a complaint in Sonoma County Superior Court against five

Defendants: (1) Anthony Lim, M.D.; (2) Douglas Jimenez, M.D.; (3) Sutter Medical Center; (4)

University of California, San Francisco; and (5) the Regents of the University of California. On

December 1, 2014, the United States, acting on Dr. Jimenez’s behalf, removed the action to this

court. It now asks the court to substitute it in place of Dr. Jimenez and to dismiss Plaintiff’s claims

against it. The hearing on the motion currently is set for January 29, 2015. 

So far, only the United States and Plaintiff have appeared in this court and consented to the

undersigned’s jurisdiction. Plaintiff has informed the court that he dismissed the University of

California, San Francisco and the Regents of the University of California from this action while it

was still in state court. Plaintiff has further informed the court that Dr. Lim and Sutter Medical

Center were served and appeared in this action in state court. 

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To rule on the United States’s motion, the court must have consent from all parties who have

been served. See 28 U.S.C. § 636(c); cf. Ornelas v. De Frantz, C 00-1067 JCS, 2000 WL 973684, at

*2 n.2 (N.D. Cal. June 29, 2000) (unserved defendants are not parties under the meaning of 28

U.S.C. § 636(c)) (citing Neals v. Norwood, 59 F.3d 530, 532 (5th Cir. 1995)). Despite their

apparently being served while the action was in state court, neither Dr. Lim nor Sutter Medical

Center have appeared here. And despite this court’s efforts so far to have all served parties either

consent to or decline the undersigned’s jurisdiction, see First Clerk’s Notice, ECF No. 12; Second

Clerk’s Notice, ECF No. 16; Order re Service, ECF No. 18, the court still has heard nothing from

Dr. Lim or Sutter Medical Center. 

Because the court cannot at this time rule on the United States’s motion, the court continues the

hearing on it from January 29, 2015 to March 5, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. in Courtroom C, 15th Floor,

United States District Court, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, California 94102. The court

reminds the parties that an initial case management conference also is set for that day and that their

joint case management statement is due by February 26, 2015. (See Order Setting Initial Case

Management Conference and ADR Deadlines, ECF No. 5.) The court directs Plaintiff to serve Dr.

Lim and Sutter Medical Center with a copy of this order by January 30, 2015. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 23, 2015 _______________________________

LAUREL BEELER

United States Magistrate Judge

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