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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Insurance Contract

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

TRES CRUZES LAND & CATTLE LLC, 

a California limited liability company,

Plaintiff,

v.

SCOTTSDALE INSURANCE 

COMPANY, a subsidiary of Nationwide 

Insurance Company, an Ohio 

corporation, et al.,

Defendants.

No. 2:15-cv-00449 MCE-DAD

RELATED CASE ORDER

JOHN W. BUSBY II, Trustee of the 

Edward Pestana Trust, 

Plaintiff,

v.

SCOTTSDALE INSURANCE 

COMPANY, a subsidiary of Nationwide 

Insurance Company, an Ohio 

corporation, et al.,

Defendants.

No. 2:15-cv-00764 GEB-DAD

The Court has received the Notice of Related Case filed on April 14, 2015.

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 

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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. 

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. 

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the action denominated 2:15-cv-00764 GEBDAD, John W. Busby II v. Scottsdale Insurance Company, et al. is reassigned to Chief 

Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. and Magistrate Judge Dale A. Drozd for all further 

proceedings, and any dates currently set in this reassigned case only are hereby 

VACATED. The Clerk of the Court is to issue an Order Requiring Joint Status Report. 

Henceforth, the caption on documents filed in the reassigned case shall be shown as 

2:15-cv-00764-MCE-DAD.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court make appropriate 

adjustment in the assignment of civil cases to compensate for this reassignment. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 8, 2015

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