Judge: Douglas W. Stern, Case: 21STCV37060, Date: 2022-08-19 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 21STCV37060    Hearing Date: August 19, 2022    Dept: 52

Non-Appearance Case Review Re: Notice of Related Case

Defendants Andres A. Diaz Perez, Angelita Perez, and Arnulfo Perez filed a notice of related case seeking to relate this case to Jesus Castro v. Andres A. Diaz Perez, et al., No. 22STCV22705.  Plaintiff filed that action against the same defendants on July 14, 2022. 

On August 9, 2022, plaintiff and defendants stipulated to dismissing the new action and to permitting plaintiff to file a third amended complaint in this case.  On August 10, 2022, plaintiff submitted a request to dismiss the entire action without prejudice in case No. 22STCV22705.  The dismissal has not yet been entered.

The court finds no efficiency in ordering these cases related.  Relating and reassigning cases is discretionary.  (CRC 3.300(h)(1) [“cases may be ordered related”.)  The parties stipulated to dismissing the new action.  Plaintiff thus agreed to abandon it.  Relating the cases and reassigning the new action to this court would serve no purpose.

The court finds the two cases are not related.