Bryant et al v. Service Corporation International et al

MOTION to Transfer Case

N.D. Cal.May 16, 2008

2 STEVEN H. GURNEE, ESQ. SB# 66056 DAVID M. DANIELS, ESQ. SB# 170315 NICHOLAS p. FORESTIERE, ESQ. SB#125118 GURNEE & DANIELS LLP 2240 Douglas Boulevard, Suite 150 Rosevile, CA 95661-3805 Telephone (916) 797-3100 Facsimile (916) 797-3131 3 4 5 Attorneys for Defendants SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL, SCI FUNERAL AND CEMETERY PURCHASING COOPERA TIVE, INC., SCI EASTERN MARKET SUPPORT CENTER, L.P. SCI WESTERN MARKET SUPPORT CENTER, L.P. a/kJa SCI WESTERN MARKET SUPPORT CENTER, INC., SCI HOUSTON MARKET SUPPORT CENTER, L.P. JANE D. JONES, GWEN PETTEWAY, THOMAS RYAN and CURTIS BRIGGS 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 UNITED STATES DISTRlCT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA (SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION) 13 14 15 CLAUDE BRYANT, JOSEPH BIERNACKI, )Case No. C 08-1190 SI GORDON FARMER, RHEAL YN HOLLAND,) . JAMES STICKLE, ELEANOR RIGGIO, )Class Action FRANK ACCUNA, RICHARD )DEFENDANTS SERVICE CORPORATION LAMASTERS, KENNETH ALLEN, CRAIG )INTERNATIONAL, SCI FUNERAL AND FULCHER, SANFORD LEVINE and )CEMETERY PURCHASING THOMAS THOMPSON, on behalf of )COOPERATIVE, INC, SCI EASTERN themselves and all other employees and former )MARKT SUPPORT CENTER, L.P. SCI.. . WESTERN MARKT SUPPORT CENTER,employees similarly situated, )L.P. a/k/a SCI WESTERN MARKT )SUPPORT CENTER, INC, SCI HOUSTON )MARKT SUPPORT CENTER, L.P. JANE )D. JONES, GWEN PETTEWAY, THOMAS )RY AN and CURTIS BRIGGS' NOTICE OF SERVICE CORPORATION )MOTION AND MOTION TO TRANSFER INTERNATIONAL, SCI FUNERAL AND lURSUANT TO 28 U.S.CA. § 1404(a) CEMETERY PURCHASING ) COOPERATIVE, INC., SCI EASTERN ) MARKT SUPPORT CENTER, L.P. SCI ) WESTERN MARKT SUPPORT CENTER, )?i~~e~: L.P. a/kJa SCI WESTERN MARKET )Dept: SUPPORT CENTER, INC., SCI HOUSTON ) MARKET SUPPORT CENTER, L.P. JANE D.) JONES, GWEN PETTEWAY, THOMAS )Trial Date: NONE SET 16 17 18 19 20 21 Plaintiffs, vs. 22 23 24 25 26 June 20, 2008 9:00 a.m. 10 27 28 DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO TRANSFER Case No.: 08-01190 SI 1 Case 3:08-cv-01190-SI Document 57 Filed 05/16/2008 Page 1 of 3 RYAN and CURTIS BRIGGS, ) ) )2 Defendants. 3 TO ALL PARTIES AND THEIR ATTORNEYS OF RECORD: 4 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT on June 20, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter as the 5 matter may be heard in Department 10 of the United States District Court, Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, located at 450 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco, California, Defendants Service Corporation International ("SCI"), SCI Funeral and Cemetery Purchasing Cooperative, Inc. ("COOP"), SCI Eastern Market Support Center, L.P. ("Eastern Market Support"), SCI Western Market Support Center ("Western Market Support"), SCI Houston Market Support Center, L.P. ("Houston Market Support") Jane D. Jones ("Jones"), Gwen Petteway ("Petteway"), Thomas Ryan ("Ryan") and Curtis Briggs ("Briggs") (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Moving Defendants") wil move the Court pursuant to 28 U.S.c. 1404(a) for an 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 order to transfer venue of this action to the United States District Court for the Phoenix Division of 14 Arizona where the related action of Stickle et at. v. SCI Western Market Support Center, L.P., Case 15 No. 08-CV -83 ("Stickle") is pending. 16 This motion to transfer this action is made up on the grounds the transfer of venue of this action to the Arizona District Court district is a venue where this action might have been brought, and is for convenience of the paries and witnesses and in the interest of justice. This Motion wil be based upon this Notice of Motion and Motion, the Memorandum of Points and Authorities set forth below, the accompanying Request for Judicial Notice, and the pleadings, records and fies in this action, the related actions commonly known as Bryant 1, Helm, Prise I and II and Stickle as identified in this Motion and Request for Judicial Notice, and upon such other and further evidence and argument as may be presented at the time of the hearing. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Dated: May l6, 2008 GURNEE & DANIELS LLP 25 js) STEVEN H. GURNEE, ESQ. DAVID M. DANIELS, ESQ. NICHOLAS P. FORESTIERE, ESQ. Attorneys for Defendants 26 By 27 28 DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO TRANSFER Case No.: 08-01190 SI 2 Case 3:08-cv-01190-SI Document 57 Filed 05/16/2008 Page 2 of 3 2 I hereby certifY that on the 15th day of May, 2008, I electronically transmitted the attached document to the Clerk's Office using the CM/ECF System for fiing and transmittal of a Notice of Electronic Filng to the following CM/CF registrants: 3 4 5 Maria V. Morris mmorrisêrbg-Iaw.com 6 7 Lori Rifkin Irifkin(irb g - law. com 8 9 Sanford J. Rosen srosenêrbg- law .com 10 11 and by mail to: 12 Justin Cordello Anette Gifford Michael J. Lingle Patrick J. Solomon J . Nelson Thomas Dolin Thomas & Solomon LLP 693 East Ave. Rochester, NY 14607 13 14 15 16 17 18 Kyle T. McGee Charles H. Saul Libert J. Weyandt Margolis Edelstein 525 Wiliam Penn Pi, Ste. 3300 Pittsburg, P A 15219 19 20 21 22 23 /lølft!R CiJbtth Deseree C. Rosebrock 24 25 26 27 28 Case 3:08-cv-01190-SI Document 57 Filed 05/16/2008 Page 3 of 3