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Parties Involved:
Michael Hacker
Plaintiff
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Defendant
Taylor Smart
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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TAYLOR SMART and MICHAEL 

HACKER, individually and on 

behalf of all those similarly 

situated,

Plaintiffs, 

v.

NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC

ASSOCIATION, an unincorporated

association,

Defendant.

No. 2:22-cv-02125 WBS KJN

ORDER RELATING CASES

JOSEPH COLON, SHANNON RAY, and 

KYLE McKINLEY, individually and 

on behalf of all those 

similarly situated,

 Plaintiffs, 

 v.

NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC 

ASSOCIATION, an unincorporated 

association,

 Defendant.

 

 No. 1:23-cv-00425 JLT SKO

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Examination of the above-entitled actions reveals that

they are related within the meaning of Local Rule 123(a), because

both cases are putative class actions similarly alleging that the 

National Collegiate Athletic Association’s bylaw provision 

concerning volunteer coaches violates the Sherman Act. 

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 and magistrate judge to 

whom the first filed action was assigned. 

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the actions denominated

Smart v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, 2:22-cv-02125

WBS KJN, and Colon v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, 

1:23-cv-00425 JLT SKO, be, and the same hereby are, deemed 

related. The case denominated Colon v. National Collegiate 

Athletic Association, 1:23-cv-00425 JLT SKO, shall be reassigned 

to the Honorable WILLIAM B. SHUBB. Any dates currently set in 

the reassigned case only are hereby VACATED. Henceforth, the 

captions on documents filed in the reassigned case shall be shown 

as Colon v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, 1:23-cv00425 WBS KJN.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court make 

an appropriate adjustment in the assignment of cases to 

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compensate for this reassignment.

Dated: March 24, 2023

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