Ortiz
Ortiz v. Lowe's Home Centers, LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
10 LILLIAN ORTIZ, Case No. 1:23-cv-01460-JLT-CDB
Plaintiff,
ORDER CONSOLIDATING CASES PURSUANT
v. TO RULE 42(a)
LOWE’S HOME CENTERS, LLC, and DOES 1 through 50, 15 Defendants. 16 FERNANDO ALVAREZ, Case No. 1:23-cv-01462-JLT-CDB
Plaintiff,
ORDER CONSOLIDATING CASES PURSUANT
v. TO RULE 42(a) LOWE’S HOME CENTERS, LLC, and DOES 1 through 50, 21 Defendants. 22 23 On October 12, 2023, separate actions commenced in state court by Plaintiffs Lillian Ortiz and Fernando Alvarez (“Plaintiffs”) were removed to this Court by Defendant Lowe’s Home Centers, LLC. On December 20, 2023, in advance of the scheduling conferences in these actions, the parties filed joint scheduling reports in which they represented they consented to consolidate the matters. (No. 1:23-cv-01460-JLT-CDB, Doc. [9]; 1:23-cv-01462-JLT-CDB, Doc. [11]). In their joint scheduling reports and during the scheduling conference convened by…