(PS) Arnold v. Lion's Club Int'l Assoc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 KIMBLY ARNOLD, et al., Case No. 2:24-cv-3168-TLN-JDP (PS) Plaintiffs, v. ORDER LION’S CLUB INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION, et al., 15 Defendants.

17 Plaintiffs, proceeding without counsel, have brought this action against Lion’s Club International and several of its employees and officers. Plaintiffs have commenced another action in this district against the same defendants over the same dispute. These actions appear to be duplicative. See Arnold v. Lions Club International Association, No. 2:24-cv-2095-DAD-AC. “Plaintiffs generally have ‘no right to maintain two separate actions involving the same subject matter at the same time in the same court and against the same defendant.’” Adams v. Cal. Dep’t of Health Servs., 487 F.3d 684, 688 (9th Cir. 2007), overruled on other grounds by Taylor v. Sturgell, 553 U.S. 880, 904 (2008) (quoting Walton v. Eaton Corp., 563 F.2d 66, 70 (3d Cir. 1977) (en banc)). “[I]n assessing whether the second action…