Homefed Village III Master, LLC v. Otay Landfill, Inc.

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 HOMEFED VILLAGE III MASTER, Case No.: 20-cv-0784-AGS-JLB LLC, 4 ORDER ON MOTIONS TO Plaintiff, 5 BIFURCATE (ECF 165, 166, 168) v. 6 OTAY LANDFILL, INC., et al., 7 Defendants. 8 9 Plaintiff’s amended complaint includes one purely equitable claim, which is 10 normally tried to a judge alone, and two state-law causes of action, which require a jury 11 trial. Defendants move to bifurcate these claims and try the equitable claim—or at least an 12 element of it—first in a separate bench trial. The key question is whether this…