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Parties Involved:
Applied Risk Services, Inc.
Defendant
Applied Underwriters Captive Risk Assurance Company, Inc.
Defendant
Applied Underwriters, Inc.
Counter Claimant
California Insurance Company
Defendant
Shasta Linen Supply, Inc.
Counter Defendant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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SHASTA LINEN SUPPLY, INC., a 

California corporation and all 

those similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

v.

APPLIED UNDERWRITERS INC., a 

Nebraska Corporation; APPLIED 

UNDERWRITERS CAPTIVE RISK 

ASSURANCE COMPANY, INC., A 

British Virgin Islands company; 

CALIFORNIA INSURANCE COMPANY, a 

registered California insurance 

company; APPLIED RISK SERVICES, 

INC., a Nebraska Corporation, 

 Defendants.

PET FOOD EXPRESS LTD., a 

California corporation and all 

those similarly

situated,

 Plaintiffs, 

 v.

APPLIED UNDERWRITERS INC.; 

APPLIED UNDERWRITERS CAPTIVE 

CIV. NO. 2:16-00158 WBS AC

CIV. NO. 2:16-01211 MCE CKD

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RISK ASSURANCE COMPANY, INC.; 

CALIFORNIA INSURANCE COMPANY, 

INC., and Does 1-50, inclusive,

 Defendants.

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Examination of the above-entitled actions reveals that

these actions are related within the meaning of Local Rule 

123(a) because both actions involve putative class actions 

involving the same potential class members, same defendants, and 

the same or similar facts, claims, and questions of law and fact. 

Accordingly, the assignment of the matters to the same judge is 

likely to effect a substantial saving 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 actions is 

effected. Under the regular practice of this court, related 

cases are generally assigned to the judge to whom the first filed 

action was assigned.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the actions denominated 

Shasta Linen Supply, Inc. v. Applied Underwriters, Inc. et al., 

2:16-cv-00158 WBS AC, and Pet Food Express Ltd. v. Applied 

Underwriters Inc. et al., No 2:16-cv-01211 MCE CKD, be, and the 

same hereby are, deemed related and the case denominated Pet Food 

Express Ltd. v. Applied Underwriters Inc. et al., No 2:16-cv01211 MCE CKD, shall be reassigned to the Honorable WILLIAM B. 

SHUBB and Magistrate Judge ALLISON CLAIRE. Any dates currently 

set in the reassigned case only are hereby VACATED. Henceforth, 

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the caption on documents filed in the reassigned case shall be 

shown as Pet Food Express Ltd. v. Applied Underwriters Inc. et 

al., No 2:16-cv-01211 WBS AC.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court

make appropriated adjustment in the assignment of civil cases to 

compensate for this reassignment.

Dated: June 6, 2016

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