Judge: Armen Tamzarian, Case: BC714498, Date: 2022-07-26 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: BC714498    Hearing Date: July 26, 2022    Dept: 52

Tentative Ruling:

            Plaintiff Francisco Rodriguez’s Notice of Related Case

            Plaintiff Francisco Rodriguez filed a notice of related case for this case and seven other actions against defendant Los Angeles Dodgers, LLC.  (Nos. 19STCV13057, 19STCV38161, 19STCV37941, 20STCV23897, 22STCV12398, 22STCV12365, and 22STCV12389.)  These eight cases all involve similar circumstances in general: each plaintiff alleges he or she was injured by security employees at Dodger Stadium. 

Reassigning the cases would not promote judicial economy.  The eight cases each have different plaintiffs.  The cases involve particularized factual questions about what happened and what injuries each plaintiff suffered.  The cases do not arise from a single event where multiple people were injured; they arise from different incidents occurring over the period from March 2018 to October 2021.  And in addition to the common defendant Los Angeles Dodgers, LLC, the cases have numerous individual defendants unique to each case.  The unique issues predominate over the common issues.         

The court finds the cases are not related.