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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1391 Personal Injury

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KERI VAN LENGEN, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

GENERAL MILLS, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

No. 2:15-cv-02262 MCE-KJN

RELATED CASE ORDER

JACKLYN HADDIX, individually and on 

behalf of all others similarly situated,

Plaintiff,

v.

GENERAL MILLS, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

No. 2:15-cv-02625 MCE-AC

The Court has received the Notice of Related Case filed on February 5, 2016.

Examination of the above-entitled civil actions reveals that these actions are 

related within the meaning of Local Rule 123(a) (E.D. Cal. 1997). The actions involve 

many of the same defendants and are based on the same or similar claims, the same 

property transaction or event, similar questions of fact and the same questions of law, 

and would therefore entail a substantial duplication of labor if heard by different judges. 

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Accordingly, the assignment of the matters to the same judge is likely to effect a 

substantial savings of judicial effort and is also likely to be convenient for the parties. 

The parties should be aware that relating the cases under Local Rule 123 merely 

has the result that both actions are assigned to the same judge; no consolidation of the 

action is effected. Under the regular practice of this court, related cases are generally 

assigned to the district judge and magistrate judge to whom the first filed action was 

assigned. 

Because the cases are already assigned to the same district judge, this Order is 

issued to reassign the case from Magistrate Judge Allison Claire to Magistrate Judge 

Kendall J. Newman for all further proceedings. 

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the action denominated No. 2:15-cv-02625

MCE-AC, Jacklyn Haddix. vs. General Mills, et al. is reassigned from Magistrate Judge 

Claire to Magistrate Judge Kendall Newman. Henceforth, the caption on documents 

filed in the reassigned case shall be shown as No. 2:15-cv-02625-MCE-KJN.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 12, 2016

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