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Nature of Suit Code: 290
Nature of Suit: Other Real Property Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-(Citizenship)

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RICHARD REED, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

US BAN N.A., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-05437-VC 

ORDER DIRECTING PLAINTIFF TO 

FILE SUR REPLY TO DEFENDANTS' 

REPLY IN SUPPORT OF THEIR 

MOTION TO DISMISS

Re: Dkt. No. 44

On April 9, 2015, the defendants filed a reply brief in support of their motion to dismiss. 

Docket No. 44. In that brief, the defendants raised for the first time the issue of collateral estoppel 

based on the plaintiffs' prior case against Chase. Id. at 2–3; see Richard Reed v. JP Morgan Chase 

Bank, et al., Contra Costa Superior Court Case No. MSC12-00154.

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 Because the plaintiffs did not 

have the opportunity to address this argument in their opposition to the defendants' motion to 

dismiss, the plaintiffs are directed to file, by no later than 10:00 a.m. on April 17, 2015, a sur reply 

brief, not to exceed ten pages in length, addressing the issue of collateral estoppel (but no other 

issues). 

The brief should explain both (1) why the plaintiffs' are not estopped from asserting the 

claims they bring directly against Chase; and (2) why, in the event that the Court concludes that 

the plaintiffs are estopped from asserting claims directly against Chase, the plaintiffs would not 

also be estopped from asserting claims against Defendants US Bank and Select Portfolio Services 

based on Chase's alleged wrongful conduct on a theory of successor liability.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 10, 2015

______________________________________

 VINCE CHHABRIA

 United States District Judge

 1 The Court grants the defendants' request for judicial notice of the complaint and notice of entry 

of judgment. Docket No. 45; see Fed. R. Evid. 201.

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