Williams v. Hinojosa ( 2021 )

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 3 * * * 4 CIARA WILLIAMS, 5 Plaintiff, ORDER CONSOLIDATING CASES 6 v. 7 SILVINO HINOJOSA, et al., Case No. 2-20-cv-01871-RFB-NJK 8 Defendants. 9 ___________________________________ 10 ELBA SERVIN, et al., Case No. 2:21-cv-01064-JCM-EJY 11 Plaintiffs, 12 v. 13 SILVINO HINOJOSA, et al., 14 Defendants. 15 16 These two cases come before the Court on motions to consolidate, filed on July 19, 2021 in 17 cases 2-20-cv-01871-RFB-NJK and 2:21-cv-01064-JCM-EJY. Courts may consolidate actions that 18 involve common questions of law or fact. Fed. R. Civ. P. 42(a). The district court has broad discretion 19 over whether to order consolidation, and in doing so “weighs the saving of time and effort consolidation 20 would produce against any inconvenience, delay, or expense that it would cause.” Huene v. United 21 States, 743 F.2d 703, 704 (9th Cir. 1984). The judges to whom these actions are assigned have reviewed 22 the motions and, exercising their discretion, the undersigned judges find that consolidation of these 23 actions would support judicial economy would avoid conflicting and duplicative orders. 24 IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Plaintiffs’ Motions to Consolidate are GRANTED. 25 Case Nos. 2-20-cv-01871-RFB-NJK and 2:21-cv-01064-JCM-EJY are consolidated, with Case No. 26 2-20-cv-01871-RFB-NJK serving as the lead case. All further filings in these cases shall be filed 27 in the lead case. ] IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Case No. 2-21-cv-01064-JCM-EJY is reassigned to 2 || District Judge Richard F. Boulware and Magistrate Judge Nancy Koppe for all further 3 || proceedings. 4 5 DATED this 16th day of August, 2021. 6 7 AS ts ©. Atallan 8 RICHARD F. BOULWARE, II {AMES C MAHAN 9 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 10 1] 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28