1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 JOEL RICHARDSON, Case No.: 23cv2151-L-JLB

12 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO 13 v. TRANSFER VENUE

14 TESLA, INC. dba TESLA MOTORS, [ECF No. 6] INC. et al., 15 Defendants. 16

17 Pending before the Court in this putative consumer class action is Defendants’ 18 motion to transfer venue pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1401(a) to the Northern District of 19 California, where a parallel putative consumer class action has been pending since 20 September 14, 2022. Matsuko v. Tesla, Inc., U.S. Dist. Ct. N. Dist. Cal. case no. 21 3:22cv05240-RFL. (See ECF No. 6.) Plaintiff, represented by counsel, has not filed an 22 opposition. The time to oppose has elapsed. See Civ. Local R. 7.1(e)(2). Because it is 23 unclear whether Plaintiff’s counsel is a registered user of the Court’s CM/ECF system, 24 Defendant served its motion and subsequent notice of non-opposition by mailing the 25 documents to Plaintiff’s counsel by first class U.S. mail on December 21, 2023. (ECF 26 No. 8.) To date, Plaintiff has not filed an opposition. Based on the foregoing, 27 Defendant’s motion is granted as unopposed. See Civ. Loc. Rule 7.1(f)(3)(c); Ghazali v. 28 Moran,

(9th Cir. 1995). 1 Accordingly, it is ordered as follows: 2 1. This action is transferred to the United States District Court for the Northern 3 || District of California. 4 2. Because it is unclear whether Plaintiff’s counsel is a registered user on the 5 Court’s CM/ECE system, the Clerk is ordered to serve this Order by first class U.S. Mail. 6 IT IS SO ORDERED. 7 8 ||Dated: January 8, 2024 1 fee fp 10 H . James Lorenz, United States District Judge

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