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Nature of Suit Code: 895
Nature of Suit: Freedom of Information Act of 1974
Cause of Action: 05:552 Freedom of Information Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CALIFORNIA PLANNED 

PARENTHOOD EDUCATION FUND, 

Plaintiff,

v.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,

Defendant.

No. 2:19-cv-00340-TLN-CKD

CALIFORNIA PLANNED 

PARENTHOOD EDUCATION FUND,

Plaintiffs,

v.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,

Defendant.

No. 2:19-cv-01848-KJM-KJN

RELATED CASE ORDER

Defendant filed a joint Notice of Related Cases in the above-captioned actions on 

December 20, 2019. (ECF Nos. 13 and 8, respectively.) Examination of the above-captioned 

actions reveals that they are related within the meaning of Local Rule 123 (E.D. Cal. 1997). 

Pursuant to Rule 123 of the Local Rules of the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of California, two actions are related when they involve the same parties and are based on 

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a same or similar claim; when they involve the same transaction, property, or event; or when they 

“involve similar questions of fact and the same question of law and their assignment to the same 

Judge . . . is likely to effect a substantial savings of judicial effort.” L.R. 123(a). Further, 

[i]f the Judge to whom the action with the lower or lowest number 

has been assigned determines that assignment of the actions to a 

single Judge is likely to effect a savings of judicial effort or other 

economies, that Judge is authorized to enter an order reassigning all 

higher numbered related actions to himself or herself.

L.R. 123(c). 

Here, the actions involve identical parties; are based on similar claims seeking documents 

related to Title X of the Public Health Services Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300–3001-8, under the Freedom 

of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552; and involve the same or similar questions of law. 

Consequently, assignment to the same judge would “effect a substantial savings of judicial 

effort.” L.R. 123(a), see also L.R. 123(c). 

Relating the cases under Local Rule 123, however, merely has the result that both actions 

are assigned to the same judge, it does not consolidate the actions. Under the regular practice of 

this Court, related cases are generally assigned to the judge and magistrate judge to whom the 

first filed action was assigned. 

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the action denominated 2:19-cv-01848-KJM-KJN is

reassigned to District Judge Troy L. Nunley and Magistrate Judge Carolyn K. Delaney, and the 

caption shall read 2:19-cv-01848-TLN-CKD. Any dates currently set in 2:19-cv-01848-KJMKJN are hereby VACATED, and the parties are ordered to refile any pending motions before this 

Court. The Clerk of the Court is to issue the Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 8, 2020

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