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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:451 Employment Discrimination

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

TOMIKA R. THOMPSON,

Plaintiff,

v.

SOUTH OF MARKET HEALTH CENTER, 

et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 19-cv-07904-JCS

Also Filed in Case No. 19-cv-06482-LB 

SUA SPONTE REFERRAL TO 

DETERMINE WHETHER CASES ARE 

RELATED

Plaintiff Tomika Thompson asserts claims related to employment discrimination against 

Defendants South of Market Health Center (“SOMHC”) and two of its officers, Charles Range 

and Cristina Sprague. Among the conduct at issue in Thompson’s complaint is an allegation that 

Range used hostile and purportedly discriminatory language regarding Thompson’s thensupervisor Dr. Gwen Rowe-Lee. See Compl. (dkt. 1) ¶ 54. Thompson’s portion of the parties’

case management statement (dkt. 21), filed on May 15, 2020, references a separate action filed by 

Dr. Rowe-Lee, represented by the same counsel as Thompson, against SOMHC and Range.1 Dr. 

Rowe-Lee’s complaint also references purportedly discriminatory treatment of Thompson. RoweLee v. S. of Mkt. Health Ctr., No. 19-cv-06482-LB, ECF Doc. No. 1 at ¶¶ 33(d), 41(d), 43 (N.D. 

Cal. Oct. 9, 2019) (complaint). The Honorable Laurel Beeler granted a motion to dismiss some of 

the claims at issue in Rowe-Lee on May 7, 2020, which raised some of the same arguments 

presented in Defendants’ motion to dismiss (dkt. 7) that is pending in this case. See Rowe-Lee v. 

S. of Mkt. Health Ctr., No. 19-cv-06482-LB, 2020 WL 2219032 (N.D. Cal. May 7, 2020).

This case is therefore REFERRED to Judge Beeler pursuant to Civil Local Rule 3-12(c) to

1 The case management statement also notes another potentially related case, Barnes-Perrilliat v. 

South of Market Health Center, No. 20-cv-02368-KAW (N.D. Cal.). The Court expresses no view 

at this time as to whether the subsequently-filed Barnes-Perrilliat case is related either to this case 

or to Rowe-Lee.

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determine whether it is related to Rowe-Lee. Any party may file a response supporting or 

opposing finding the cases related no later than May 22, 2020. See Civ. L.R. 3-12(c), 3-12(e), 

7-11(b). The hearing and case management conference set for May 22, 2020 are CONTINUED to 

June 12, 2020 at 9:30 AM, and may be continued further if Judge Beeler finds the cases related.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 18, 2020

______________________________________

JOSEPH C. SPERO

Chief Magistrate Judge

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