The following excerpt is from Expo Fresh, LLC v. W. Repacking, LLP, Case No.: 16cv1881-LAB (BLM) (S.D. Cal. 2017):
But this doctrine applies only where the cases are sufficiently parallel. Nakash v. Marciano, 882 F.2d 1411, 1416 (9th Cir. 1989). The two cases need not be identical;
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