Vang

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, No. 2:22-cv-01807-KJM-KJN Plaintiff in ORDER B Interpleader, v: Billy Vang and Amanda Thao, Defendants in Interpleader. 17 18 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company filed its complaint in this action under Federal Rule 20 of Civil Procedure 22. See Compl. § 4, ECF No. 1. Rule 22 allows a party to file a claim in interpleader given the “possibility of exposure to double or multiple liability.” Lee v. W. Coast 22 Life Ins. Co., 688 F.3d 1004, 1009 (9th Cir. 2012). Interpleader actions allow a stakeholder to 23 protect itself when it faces more than one claim to a single fund. /d. (quoting Mack v. Kuckenmeister, 619 F.3d 1010, 1024 (9th Cir. 2010)). In an interpleader action, the district court 25 first decides whether the requirements of Rule 22 have been met, and then the court evaluates the defendants’ claims to the single fund. Mack, 619 F.3d…