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Parties Involved:
Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc.
Defendant
Securities and Exchange Commission
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SPECIAL SITUATIONS FUND III QP, 

L.P., ET AL., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

MARRONE BIO INNOVATIONS, INC., 

ET AL., 

Defendants. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

HECTOR ABSI, 

 Defendant. 

No. 2:14-cv-02571-MCE-KJM 

AMENDED RELATED CASE ORDER 

No. 2:16-cr-00027-WBS-01 

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

HECTOR M. ABSI, JR. 

 Defendant. 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

MARRONE BIO INNOVATIONS, INC. 

 Defendant. 

No. 2:16-cv-00320-JAM-AC 

No. 2:16-cv-00321-MCE-EFB 

 

The Court has received the Notices of Related Cases filed on February 17, 2016 

and February 18, 2016 (ECF Nos 47 and 48). 

Examination of the above-entitled civil and criminal actions reveals that these 

actions are related within the meaning of Local Rule 123(a) (E.D. Cal. 1997). The 

actions involve many of the same defendants 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 affect a 

substantial savings of judicial effort and is also likely to be convenient for the parties. 

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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 affected. 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 2:16-cr-00027-WBS, 

United States of America v. Hector Absi, 2:16-cv-00320-JAM-AC, Securities and 

Exchange Commission v. Hector M. Absi, Jr., and 2:16-cv-00321-MCE-AC, Securities 

and Exchange Commission v. Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc., are all reassigned to Chief 

Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. and Magistrate Judge Kendall Newman for all further 

proceedings, and any dates currently set in 2:16-cv-00320-JAM-AC, Securities and 

Exchange Commission v. Hector M. Absi, Jr., and 2:16-cv-00321-MCE-AC, Securities 

and Exchange Commission v. Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. only are hereby VACATED. 

Henceforth, the caption on documents filed in the reassigned shall be shown as 2:16-cr00027-MCE, United States of America v. Hector Absi, 2:16-cv-00320-MCE-KJN, 

Securities and Exchange Commission v. Hector M. Absi, Jr., and 2:16-cv-00321-MCEKJN, Securities and Exchange Commission v. Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc.. 

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 23, 2016 

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