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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
RADLEY ALCANTARA, et al.,
individually and on behalf of all others
similarly situated,
Plaintiffs,
v.
AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO.,
INC., and HONDA MOTOR
COMPANY LIMITED,
Defendants.
Case No.: 25-cv-02376-AJB-MMP
ORDER GRANTING JOINT MOTION
TO CONSOLIDATE
(Doc. No. 34)
Plaintiffs Radley Alcantara, Ashley Bowman, Kevin Lucey, Austin Polson, Tiffany
Richardson, and Brian Wise and Defendant American Honda Motor Co., Inc. jointly move
to consolidate this action with 	Bissell, et al. v. American Honda Motor Co., No.
3:24-cv-02286-AJB-MMP (S.D. Cal. Dec. 6, 2024), with Bissell serving as the lead case.
All future submissions shall be filed only in Bissell (Case No. 3:24-cv-02286-AJB-MMP).
For the reasons stated in this Court’s Order to Show Cause Re: Consolidation (Doc.
No. 33), and having considered the joint motion, the joint motion to consolidate is
GRANTED pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 42(a). The benefit to judicial
convenience of consolidating this action with the Bissell action outweighs the potential for
any inconvenience, delay, or expense that consolidation could cause, because consolidation
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would avoid duplicative discovery and proceedings in these cases that are based on nearly
identical allegations, share common issues of law and fact, are in similar stages of
development, and are pending in the same venue. See Huene v. U.S.,743 F.2d 703, 704 (9th
Cir. 1984), on reh’g, 753 F.2d 1081 (9th Cir. 1984) (district court “weighs the saving of
time and effort consolidation would produce against any inconvenience, delay, or expense
that it would cause”). In light of the Joint Motion, the Order to Show Cause regarding
consolidation is hereby discharged. (See Doc. No. 33.)
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: February 10, 2026
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