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Parties Involved:
BNSF Railway Company
Defendant
Celtic International, LLC
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CELTIC INTERNATIONAL, LLC,

Plaintiff,

v.

BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY,

Defendants.

No. 2:14-cv-02158-TLN-CKD

NOTICE OF RELATED CASE ORDER

CELTIC INTERNATIONAL, LLC,

Plaintiff,

v.

J.B. HUNT TRANSPORT, INC.,

Defendants.

No. 2:15-cv-01679-MCE-EFB

This matter is before the Court pursuant to BNSF Railway Company’s (“Defendant”)

Notice of Potentially Related Cases. (ECF No. 49.) Prior to filing its complaint against J.B. Hunt 

Transport, Inc. (JBHT), Celtic International LLC (“Plaintiff”) filed a Motion for Leave to File 

First Amended Complaint in which they seek to add JBHT as an additional defendant in the suit. 

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(ECF No. 22.) BNSF Railway Company (“Defendant”) has filed an opposition to Plaintiff’s 

motion (ECF No. 24) and also filed a Motion for Summary Judgment (ECF No. 23) which 

Plaintiff opposes (ECF No. 33). All of these motions are currently pending before the Court and 

will be determined together in a pending Order. 

Examination of the above-entitled actions reveals that they are related within the meaning 

of Local Rule 123(a) (E.D. Cal. 1997). The actions involve the same parties, are based on the 

same claims, the same event, the same questions of fact and the same questions of law, and would 

therefore entail a substantial duplication of labor if heard by different judges. Furthermore, the 

decision of this Court in the above mentioned motions may affect the outcome of the later filed 

case. 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.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the action denominated 2:15-cv-01679-MCE-EFB is

hereby reassigned to District Judge Troy L. Nunley and Magistrate Judge Carolyn K. Delaney for 

all further proceedings. Any dates currently set in the reassigned case are hereby VACATED. 

Henceforth, the caption on documents filed in the reassigned case shall be shown as: 2:15-cv01679-TLN-CKD.

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

assignment of civil cases to compensate for this reassignment and issue.

Dated: December 18, 2015

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