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Parties Involved:
M&T Bank
Plaintiff
Paula Whiterock
Defendant

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

M&T BANK,

Plaintiff,

v.

PAULA WHITEROCK,

Defendant.

Case No. 15-cv-03736-JCS 

(also filed in Case No. 15-cv-00914-YGR)

ORDER OF SUA SPONTE REFERRAL 

AS TO WHETHER CASES ARE 

RELATED

Civil Local Rule 3-12(c) provides that “[w]henever a Judge believes that a case pending 

before that Judge is related to another case, the Judge may refer the case to the Judge assigned to 

the lowest-numbered case with a request that the Judge assigned to the lowest-numbered case 

consider whether the cases are related.” 

This unlawful detainer action was removed from California Superior Court for the County 

of Sonoma, where it bore the case number MCV 234345. This is the second time that Defendant 

Paula Whiterock has removed Sonoma County Superior Court case number MCV 234345 to this 

Court. The previous removal, this Court’s case number 15-cv-00914, was also initially assigned 

to the undersigned magistrate judge, and was reassigned to the Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez 

Rogers after Whiterock failed to respond to repeated instructions to file her consent or declination 

to magistrate judge jurisdiction. The Court remanded the case to the Sonoma County Superior 

Court on July 29, 2015, and Whiterock filed her second notice of removal—the present case, this 

Court’s number 15-cv-3736—on August 17, 2015.

Because both removals arise from the same state court action, and because Whiterock’s 

two notices of removal are materially identical, this action is REFERRED to Judge Gonzalez 

Rogers pursuant to Rule 3-12(c) for a determination of whether this action is related to M&T Bank 

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

v. Whiterock, 4:15-cv-00914-YGR (N.D. Cal.). Any party may file a response, opposition, or 

statement in support of relating the cases no later than September 21, 2015.

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 15, 2015

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JOSEPH C. SPERO

Chief Magistrate Judge

 

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The undersigned has also issued a Report and Recommendation in this case, recommending that 

the case once again be remanded and that an order be entered requiring pre-filing review of any 

further removal. If Judge Gonzalez Rogers determines that the cases are not related, this case will 

be reassigned to a randomly selected United States district judge for further proceedings, including 

action on those recommendations.

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