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Parties Involved:
City of Sacramento
Defendant
Martin Gennuso
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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JAYMES BUTLER, et. al., 

Plaintiffs, CIV. NO. S-07-02406 WBS EFB

vs.

CITY OF SACRAMENTO, RELATED CASE ORDER

Defendant.

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MARTIN GENNUSO,

Plaintiff, CIV. NO. S-08-00489 FCD KJM

vs.

CITY OF SACRAMENTO, 

Defendant.

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Examination of the above-entitled actions reveals that

these actions are related within the meaning of Local Rule 83-

123(a). E. Dist. of Cal. Local R. 83-123(a). The City of

Sacramento is the only defendant in both actions and all of the

plaintiffs in both actions are members of the Sacramento Area

Firefighters’ Union Local 522. Both cases also involve

substantially identical legal and factual claims by the 

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plaintiffs (i.e., Fair Labor Standards Act claims based on 

defendants’ alleged failures to properly compute plaintiffs’

overtime pay and to provide all compensation due as part of a

retroactive salary increase). 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 83-123 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 to whom

the first filed action was assigned.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the actions denominated

Butler v. City of Sacramento, Civ. No. S-07-02406 WBS EFB, and

Gennuso v. City of Sacramento, Civ. No. S-08-00489 FCD KJM, be,

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

Gennuso v. City of Sacramento, Civ. No. S-08-00489 FCD KJM,

shall be reassigned to the Honorable WILLIAM B. SHUBB and

Magistrate Judge Edmund F. Brennan for all further proceedings. 

Any dates currently set in the reassigned case only are hereby

VACATED. Henceforth, the caption on documents filed in the

reassigned case shall be shown as Gennuso v. City of Sacramento,

Civ. No. S-08-00489 WBS EFB. 

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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: May 6, 2008

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