Auto Warehousing Co., Inc v. Elle Placement Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON
AT TACOMA
9
AUTO WAREHOUSING COMPANY, CASE NO. C22-5072-LK
INC.,
ORDER GRANTING STIPULATED
Plaintiff, MOTION TO TRANSFER v. 13 ELLE PLACEMENT INC., et al., 14 Defendants. 15 16 This matter comes before the Court on the parties’ stipulated motion to transfer this case 17 to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California at Sacramento. Dkt. No. 18 28. The parties request the transfer pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(b), which provides that “[u]pon 19 motion, consent or stipulation of all parties, any action, suit or proceeding of a civil nature or any 20 motion or hearing thereof, may be transferred, in the discretion of the court, from the division in 21 which pending to any other division in the same district.” Transfer is not appropriate under that 22 section because the parties are not seeking a transfer to another division in the same district; they 23 seek a transfer to another district. Dkt. No. 28 at 1. 24 However, based on the substance of the parties’ stipulation and proposed order, it appears that they…