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BACKGROUND

Jane Doe WHBE 3, Jane Doe LSA 35, and the Petition for Coordination On June 8, 2020, Jane Doe WHBE 3 1 filed suit against Uber in San Francisco Superior Court for negligence, fraud, assault, sexual battery, false imprisonment, and other claims. She alleged she was a resident of Fresno County, “grew up in California and is a lifelong California resident,” and had been sexually assaulted by her Uber driver in Hawaii on January 13, 2020.

1 As plaintiffs’ opening brief explains: “Because so many Jane Doe plaintiffs filed actions against Uber, they assumed additional pseudonyms utilizing the initials of the law firms representing them.” Jane Doe WHBE 3 was “the third [case] in which the plaintiff was represented by Williams, Hart, Boundas and Easterby, LLP (now Williams, Hart & Boundas, LLP) (SF Super Ct. No. CGC-20-584649).”

2 On June 16, 2021, Jane Doe LSA 35 2 filed a similar complaint in San Francisco Superior Court. She alleged that she was sexually assaulted by an Uber driver in November 2017. On June 28, 2021, Jane Doe LSA 1, the plaintiff in another case in San Francisco Superior Court, submitted to the Chair of the Judicial Council a petition for coordination,…