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United States District Court 
Northern District of California 
 
 
 
 
 
 
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 
 
NICHOLAS A. VENTURA, 
Plaintiff, 
v. 
 
ZS Associates, Inc., et al., 
Defendants. 
 

 
 
ORDER CONSOLIDATING CASES 
 
 
The Court sua sponte considers whether the above captioned matter and Ventura v. IQVIA 
Inc., Case No. 3:25-cv-09163-RS, should be consolidated. A district court has broad discretion to 
consolidate actions involving “common issues of law or fact.” Fed.R.Civ.P. 42(a); Investors 
Research Co. v. U.S. Dist. Ct. for Cent. Dist. of Cal., 877 F.2d 777, 777 (9th Cir.1989). In 
exercising its broad discretion to order consolidation, a district court “weighs the saving of time 
and effort consolidation would produce against any inconvenience, delay, or expense that it would 
cause.” Huene v. U.S., 743 F.2d 703, 704 (9th Cir.1984). These two matters arise from the 
concurrent removal by ZS Associates and IQVIA, Inc. of the same case, filed by Plaintiff in San 
Francisco Superior Court, Case No. CGC-25-628917, and so, plainly, they are based on the same 
issues of law and fact.1 Accordingly, the cases are consolidated into one action. ZS Associate’s 
motion to stay litigation in this matter in light of the appeal pending in Case No. 25-09163 is 
denied as moot. 
 
1 ZS Associates’ removal was assigned Case No. Case No. 3:25-cv-09167-RS and Iqvia, Inc.’s 
removal was assigned Case No. 3:25-cv-09163-RS. 

 
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United States District Court 
Northern District of California 
IT IS SO ORDERED. 
 
Dated: June 12, 2026 
______________________________________ 
RICHARD SEEBORG 
Chief United States District Judge 
 
 

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