Jones
Jones v. State Farm General Insurance Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JEFFREY M. JONES, et al., Case No. 21-cv-04172-DMR
Plaintiffs,
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY THIS
v. MATTER SHOULD NOT BE STAYED
STATE FARM GENERAL INSURANCE
COMPANY,
11 Defendant. 12 The court has reviewed the parties’ briefing on Defendant State Farm General Insurance Company’s (“State Farm”) motion to dismiss the complaint filed by Plaintiffs Jeffrey M. Jones and Shannon B. Jones, Trustees of the Jeffrey & Shannon Jones Trust. [Docket Nos. 12, 15, 16.] In connection with its motion, State Farm asks the court to take judicial notice of records related to a lawsuit pending in Contra Costa County Superior Court that the same Plaintiffs filed in 2017 against State Farm’s insureds, Tzen-Wen Guo and Bihwan Lin, Case No. C 17-01167 (the “state court action”). [Docket Nos. 12-1, 12-2.] In the state court action, filed four years ago, Plaintiffs allege that the defendants, who are neighboring landowners, bear responsibility for damage caused to…