University of Southern California v. AIDS Healthcare Foundation Medical Plan ( 2020 )

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN Case No. 20-cv-1687-BAS-BGS CALIFORNIA, on Behalf of its Keck 12 Hospital of USC, ORDER GRANTING JOINT 13 MOTION TO TRANSFER VENUE Plaintiff, (ECF No. 12) 14 v. 15 AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION, 16 et al. 17 Defendants. 18 19 20 Pending before the Court is the parties’ joint motion to transfer venue. (ECF No. 21 12.) Based on the parties’ joint submission, the Court finds that the venue is proper in the 22 United States District Court for the Central District of California. Therefore, the Court 23 GRANTS the joint motion to transfer venue and TRANSFERS VENUE to the United 24 States District Court for the Central District of California. All pending motions shall be 25 resolved by the transferee Court. 26 The parties specifically request the Court to transfer the case to the Western Division 27 of the Central District of California. The Court defers the assignment of division to the 28 transferee court because the transferee court is best positioned to weigh judicial economy 1 |}and administrative considerations. See J.G. v. Los Angeles Unified Sch. Dist., No. 2 || LACV191268JGBEX, 2020 WL 2121429, at *2 (C.D. Cal. Mar. 2, 2020) (“Cases in the 3 ||Central District are assigned to each division based on a delicately balanced assignment 4 system.”). 5 6 IT IS SO ORDERED. 7 A , 8 || DATED: October 30, 2020 Ypilag (Ayphan 6 9 United States District Judge 10 1] 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28