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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Federal Question: Bivens Act

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Case No. 16-CV-03619-LHK 

ORDER RELATING CASES

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

HERGUAN UNIVERSITY,

Plaintiff,

v.

JASON KANNO, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 16-CV-03619-LHK 

ORDER RELATING CASES

Re: Dkt. No. 23

On December 2, 2016, the court in Herguan University v. ICE, Case No. 5:16-CV-06656-

BLF, filed a sua sponte Referral for Purpose of Determining Relationship (“Referral”) pursuant to 

Civil L.R. 3-12. The Referral requested this Court to determine whether to relate Herguan 

University v. ICE, Case No. 5:16-CV-06656-BLF, filed November 16, 2016, to Herguan 

University v. Kanno, Case No. 16-CV-03619-LHK, filed June 27, 2016.

The Court finds that the actions “concern substantially the same parties, property, 

transaction or event” and it is “likely that there will be an unduly burdensome duplication of labor 

and expense or conflicting results if the cases are conducted before different Judges.” Civil. L.R. 

3-12(a). 

Herguan University v. Kanno, Case No. 16-CV-03619-LHK, is the first-filed case and thus 

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Case No. 16-CV-03619-LHK 

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has the lowest case number. Under Civil L.R. 3-12(f)(3), “[i]f any Judge decides that any of the 

cases are related, . . . the Clerk shall reassign all related higher-numbered cases to that Judge.” 

Accordingly, the Clerk shall relate the later-filed case, Herguan University v. ICE, Case No. 5:16-

CV-06656-BLF, to the first-filed case, Herguan University v. Kanno, Case No. 16-CV-03619-

LHK.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 12, 2016

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LUCY H. KOH

United States District Judge

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