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Nature of Suit Code: 730
Nature of Suit: Labor Management Report &amp; Disclosure
Cause of Action: 29:0401 Labor Management Disclosure Act

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SERVICE EMPLOYEES

INTERNATIONAL UNION, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

 v.

SAL ROSSELLI, et al.,

Defendants. /

No. C 09-00404 WHA

ORDER DENYING MOTION

TO RELATE CASES

Now pending is a motion to relate the above-entitled action to Case No. 10-03112 EMC. 

Civil Local Rule 3-12(a) states that actions are related when (1) the “actions concern substantially

the same parties, property, transaction or event,” and (2) “[i]t appears likely that there will be an

unduly burdensome duplication of labor or expense or conflicting results if the cases are

conducted before different Judges.”

These actions do not involve the same parties or issues. In the present action, all

defendants were officers or employees of a local union — the UHW — prior to the imposition of

a trusteeship by the international union — the SEIU. The SEIU alleged that defendants — who

left after the trusteeship was imposed to form a new, rival union called the NUHW — committed

misconduct before they left UHW. By contrast, the new action involves a challenge by several

individuals affiliated with the NUHW to the validity of the trusteeship itself. The present action

expressly did not involve the validity of the trusteeship. Moreover, none of the individual

plaintiffs affiliated with the new case were parties in the present action. Nor are the individual

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defendants in the present action parties in the new action. For these reasons, the two matters are

not related. The motion to relate cases is therefore DENIED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 2, 2010. WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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