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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1381 E.R.I.S.A.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Chas Roberts Air Conditioning, Inc., 

Plaintiff, 

vs.

Sheet Metal Workers International

Association Local Union 359, et al.,

Defendants. 

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No. CV 04-1573 PHX NVW

ORDER

Before the court is the Motion to Transfer Case No. CV-05-2082-PHX-SMM to Judge

Wake or for Other Relief (doc. #53) and plaintiff Chas Roberts Air Conditioning, Inc.'s

Response (doc. #56). By previous order of September 7, 2005, this court deferred ruling on

the motion until Judge McNamee rules on the pending Motion to Remand to State Court in

case No. CV-05-2082-PHX SMM. The court has concluded that the deferral of ruling on the

Motion to Transfer case No. CV-05-2082-PHX SMM will create the duplication of judicial

resources that LRCiv 42.1(a) is designed to avoid. Therefore, the order of September 7, 2005

(doc. # 57) is vacated, and the court will rule now on the Motion to Transfer.

The transaction and the subject matter of No. CV-05-2082-PHX SMM is the same as

that in No. CV 04-1573 PHX NVW. Indeed, the relief sought in No. CV-05-2082-PHX

SMM is to direct the course of the arbitration proceedings being conducted on remand from

this court in No. CV 04-1573 PHX NVW. No. CV-05-2082-PHX SMM satisfies several of

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the requirements of LRCiv 42.1(a)(1) for transfer in that the two cases “arise from

substantially the same transaction or event,” they “involve substantially the same parties or

property,” and they “would entail substantial duplication of labor if heard by different judges

. . . .” Even if the pending motion to remand in No. CV-05-2082-PHX SMM is granted,

consideration of that motion is likely to benefit from the undersigned judge's familiarity with

the proceedings in No. CV 04-1573 PHX NVW and with the disputes that are at the heart of

both the arbitration ordered in No. CV 04-1573 PHX NVW and the disputes alleged in No.

CV-05-2082-PHX SMM

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the Motion of defendant Sheet Metal Workers

International Association, Local Union 359, to Transfer Case No. CV-05-2082-PHX-SMM

to Judge Wake or for Other Relief (doc. #53) is granted, and said case is transferred to the

undersigned judge. The case number henceforth is CV-05-2082-PHX-NVW.

DATED this 16th day of November, 2005.

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