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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Personal Injury

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LAURA WYLIE,

Plaintiff,

v.

MERCK & CO., INC., et al.,

Defendants.

No. 2:22-cv-00604-WBS-DB

New Case No. 2:22-cv-00604-DAD-EPG

ORDER RELATING AND REASSIGNING 

CASES

AMBER HOBBS,

Plaintiff,

v.

MERCK & CO., INC., et al.,

Defendants.

No. 2:22-cv-00662-JAM-DMC

New Case No. 2:22-cv-00662-DAD-EPG

LYNETTE EDWARDS, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

MERCK & CO., INC., et al.,

Defendants.

No. 1:22-cv-00433-JLT-SKO

New Case No. 1:22-cv-00433-DAD-EPG

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A review of the complaints in the above-captioned cases reveals that they are related 

under this court’s Local Rule 123(a) to the following related action pending before the 

undersigned: Ramos v. Merck & Co., Inc., et al., 1:22-cv-00430-DAD-EPG. Accordingly, 

assignment of the above-captioned actions to the undersigned and to Magistrate Judge Erica P. 

Grosjean will promote efficiency and economy for the court and the parties.

An order relating cases under this court’s Local Rule 123 merely assigns them to the same 

district judge and magistrate judge—it does not consolidate the cases. The local rules of this 

district authorize the judge with the lowest numbered case to order the reassignment of any higher 

numbered cases to himself or herself, upon determining that this assignment is likely to effect a 

savings of judicial effort. L.R. 123(c). Such good cause appearing here, the court orders that the 

three (3) above-captioned actions be reassigned to the undersigned and Magistrate Judge Erica P. 

Grosjean. The documents in the above-captioned actions shall bear the new case numbers above.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 20, 2022 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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