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Parties Involved:
Byron Chapman
Plaintiff
City of Lincoln
Defendant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

BYRON CHAPMAN, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

CITY OF LINCOLN, 

Defendant. 

No. 2:15-cv-00270-MCE-EFB

No. 2:15-cv-02326-MCE-EFB 

RELATED CASE ORDER 

The Court has received the Notice of Related Case filed on February 6, 2017. 

Examination of the above-entitled civil actions reveals that the above actions are 

related to Chapman v. City of Lincoln, 2:17-cv-00123-MCE-EFB, within the meaning of 

Local Rule 123(a) (E.D. Cal. 1997). The actions involve the same parties 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. 

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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 2:17-cv-00123-KJMAC is reassigned to District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. and Magistrate Judge 

Edmund F. Brennan for all further proceedings, and any dates currently set in 2:17-cv00123-KJM-AC are hereby VACATED. The Clerk of the Court is to issue the Initial 

Pretrial Scheduling Order. Henceforth, the caption on documents filed in the reassigned 

case shall be shown as 2:17-cv-00123-MCE-EFB. 

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

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

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: February 14, 2017 

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