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Parties Involved:
Randall Brannon
Plaintiff
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Defendant
First Assembly of God-Madera
Plaintiff
Madera Ministerial Association
Plaintiff
North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians
Intervenor Defendant
Lawrence Roberts
Defendant
Sarah Margaret Roffey Jewell
Defendant
Stand Up for California!
Plaintiff
Susan Stjerne
Plaintiff
Dennis Sylvester
Plaintiff
United States Department of the Interior
Defendant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

STAND UP FOR CALIFORNIA!,

7911 Logan Lane, Penryn, California 

95663;

RANDALL BRANNON, 

26171 Valerie Avenue, Madera, 

California 93638;

MADERA MINISTERIAL 

ASSOCIATION,

17755 Road 26, Madera, California 

93638;

SUSAN STJERNE, 

24349 Tropical Drive,

Madera, California 93638;

FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD –

MADERA,

22444 Avenue 18 1⁄2, Madera, California

93637; and

DENNIS SYLVESTER, 

18355 Road 25,

Madera, California 93638,

Plaintiffs, 

v.

CASE NO. 2:16-CV-02681-AWI-EPG

ORDER RELATING AND 

REASSIGNING CASE

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On November 11, 2016, Plaintiffs Stand Up for California!, Randall Brannon, Madera 

Ministerial Association, Susan Stjerne, First Assembly of God-Madera, and Dennis Sylvester 

(“Plaintiffs”) filed an action against the United States Department of the Interior, Sarah Jewell, 

as Secretary of the Department of the Interior, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Lawrence 

Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Doc. 1. Plaintiffs filed a notice of 

related cases shortly thereafter, indicating their belief that the case is related to two other cases 

filed in this District: (1) North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians v. State of California, 1:15-cv00419-AWI-SAB (E.D. Cal., filed Mar. 17, 2015) (“North Fork v. California”) and (2) Picayune 

Rancheria v. United States Department of the Interior, No. 16-cv-950-AWI-EPG (E.D. Cal., 

filed July 1, 2016) (“Picayune v. Dept. of Interior”).

Local Rules provide that when a “Judge to whom the action with the lower or lowest 

number has been assigned determines that assignment of the actions to a single Judge is likely to 

effect a savings of judicial effort or other economies, that Judge is authorized to enter an order 

reassigning all higher numbered related actions to himself or herself.” Local Rule 123(c). The 

above-entitled action appears to involve similar questions of fact and law as North Fork v. 

California and Picayune v. Dept. of Interior. Specifically, Plaintiffs seek relief that largely 

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 

THE INTERIOR, 

1849 C Street, N.W., Washington,

D.C. 20240;

SARAH MARGARET ROFFEY 

JEWELL, in her official capacity as 

Secretary, U.S. Department of the 

Interior, 1849 C Street, N.W., 

Washington, D.C. 20240;

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, U.S.

Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street,

N.W., Washington, D.C. 20240;

LAWRENCE ROBERTS, in his official

capacity as Principal Deputy Assistant

Secretary, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. 

Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street, 

N.W., Washington, D.C. 20240,

 Defendants.

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overlaps with the relief sought in Picayune v. Dept. of Interior, namely, preventing Class III 

gaming on the approximately 305-acre plot of land in Madera, California, held in trust by the 

United States for the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians (“the Madera Parcel”). Assignment 

to the same judge is likely to effect a substantial savings of judicial effort. See Local Rule 

123(a)(3). Because the undersigned is assigned the lowest numbered related case, the aboveentitled case will be reassigned from the dockets of District Judge Willaim B. Shubb and 

Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman to the dockets of Senior District Judge Anthony Ishii and 

referred to Magistrate Judge Erica P. Grosjean. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 12, 2017 

 SENIOR DISTRICT JUDGE

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