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Parties Involved:
Infmetry LLC
Counter Defendant
Message In A Bottle, Inc.
Counter Claimant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Effective August 7, 2023, Local Rule 120, of the Local Rules of the United States District 

Court, Eastern District of California, was amended. See General Order No. 666. Prior to amendment, 

Local Rule 120(d) provided that “[a]ll civil and criminal actions and proceedings of every nature and 

kind . . . arising in,” among other counties, the counties of Calaveras, and Stanislaus, “shall be 

commenced in the United States District Court sitting in Fresno, California, and in Bakersfield, 

California, Yosemite National Park[,] or other designated places.” As now amended, Local Rule 

120(d) provides that as for actions arising in the counties of Calaveras or Stanislaus, such actions shall 

now “be commenced in the United States Court sitting [in] Sacramento, California, and in Redding, 

California, or other designated places within those counties.” 

In light of the amended Local Rule 120(d), the parties are advised that, as this is an action or 

proceeding that arises in either the county of Calaveras or Stanislaus, this case will be transferred out 

INFMETRY LLC,

 Plaintiff,

v.

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, INC.,

Defendant.

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Case No.: 1:22-cv-01075-ADA-SKO

ORDER ADVISING PARTIES OF AMENDMENT 

OF LOCAL RULE AND THAT IF PARTIES WISH 

TO HAVE CASE STAY WITHIN THE CURRENT 

FRESNO COURT DIVISION, THEY MAY 

CONSENT TO MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

JURISDICTION 

FOURTEEN DAY DEADLINE 

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of the District Court in the Fresno division, and to the District Court in the Sacramento division. 

Before the case is transferred, the Court issues this order to advise the parties that if they wish to keep 

this case in the Fresno division, they may consent to magistrate judge jurisdiction, and this case will 

remain in the Fresno division and will be assigned to the current Magistrate Judge already assigned to 

this action. If the parties do not consent to Magistrate Judge jurisdiction, this action will be transferred 

out of the Fresno division, and a new District Judge and Magistrate Judge will be assigned. 

To consent or decline to magistrate judge jurisdiction, a party may sign and file the consent 

form available on the Court’s website.

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 Parties may consent, decline or withhold consent without any 

adverse consequences, and the assigned Magistrate Judge will not be informed of the individual 

party’s holding or withholding of consent. 

Accordingly, within 14 days of the date of service of this order, the parties may file consent to

the Magistrate Judge jurisdiction forms, and if all parties consent, this action will remain in the Fresno 

division, otherwise, the case will be transferred to the Sacramento division and a new District Judge 

and Magistrate Judge will be assigned. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 29, 2023 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

1 The consent form is available at: http://www.caed.uscourts.gov/caednew/index.cfm/forms/civil/. 

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