Lee v. South of Market Health Center

Opinion

1 2 5 6 TOMIKA R. THOMPSON, Case No. 19-cv-07904-JCS Plaintiff, Also Filed in Case No. 19-cv-06482-LB 7 v. 9 S etO aU l.,T H OF MARKET HEALTH CENTER, D RE ET LE AR TM EDIN E WHETHER CASES ARE 10 Defendants. 11 12 Plaintiff Tomika Thompson asserts claims related to employment discrimination against 13 Defendants South of Market Health Center (“SOMHC”) and two of its officers, Charles Range 14 and Cristina Sprague. Among the conduct at issue in Thompson’s complaint is an allegation that 15 Range used hostile and purportedly discriminatory language regarding Thompson’s then- 16 supervisor Dr. Gwen Rowe-Lee. See Compl. (dkt. 1) ¶ 54. Thompson’s portion of the parties’ 17 case management statement (dkt. 21), filed on May 15, 2020, references a separate action filed by 18 Dr. Rowe-Lee, represented by the same counsel as Thompson, against SOMHC and Range.1 Dr. 19 Rowe-Lee’s complaint also references purportedly discriminatory treatment of Thompson. Rowe- 20 Lee v. S. of Mkt. Health Ctr., No. 19-cv-06482-LB, ECF Doc. No. 1 at ¶¶ 33(d), 41(d), 43 (N.D. 21 Cal. Oct. 9, 2019) (complaint). The Honorable Laurel Beeler granted a motion to dismiss some of 22 the claims at issue in Rowe-Lee on May 7, 2020, which raised some of the same arguments 23 presented in Defendants’ motion to dismiss (dkt. 7) that is pending in this case. See Rowe-Lee v. 24 S. of Mkt. Health Ctr., No. 19-cv-06482-LB, 2020 WL 2219032 (N.D. Cal. May 7, 2020). 25 This case is therefore REFERRED to Judge Beeler pursuant to Civil Local Rule 3-12(c) to 26 1 The case management statement also notes another potentially related case, Barnes-Perrilliat v. 27 South of Market Health Center, No. 20-cv-02368-KAW (N.D. Cal.). The Court expresses no view ] determine whether it is related to Rowe-Lee. Any party may file a response supporting or 2 || opposing finding the cases related no later than May 22, 2020. See Civ. L.R. 3-12(c), 3-12(e), 3 7-11(b). The hearing and case management conference set for May 22, 2020 are CONTINUED to 4 |} June 12, 2020 at 9:30 AM, and may be continued further if Judge Beeler finds the cases related. 6 || Dated: May 18, 2020 7 c ae J PH C. SPERO 8 ief Magistrate Judge 9 10 1]

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