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U.S. District Court — Central District of California

Perez v. Texis Restaurants — C.D. Cal. Issues OSC on Declining Supplemental Jurisdiction Over Unruh Act Claim by High-Frequency ADA Litigant

/ January 5, 2026

Judge John A. Kronstadt ordered serial ADA plaintiff German Perez — who had filed more than ten construction-related accessibility cases in the prior year — to show cause why the court should not decline supplemental jurisdiction over his state-law Unruh Act claim, channeling it back to California s

California Civil Procedure Litigation Real Estate

U.S. District Court — Central District of California

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Delomprey v. PHH Mortgage Servicing — C.D. Cal. Grants Remand to State Court After Plaintiff Drops Federal Claims

/ January 2, 2026

Judge Anne Hwang granted plaintiff’s motion to remand a foreclosure suit to Ventura County Superior Court after he amended his complaint to drop federal claims, rejecting the defendants’ fraudulent-joinder argument as not meeting the Ninth Circuit’s heavy burden under Grancare.

California Business Transactions Intellectual Property Litigation

U.S. District Court — Central District of California

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Hoffman v. Goli Nutrition — C.D. Cal. Grants Summary Judgment to VMG Investors on Trade Secret Claim Where Vitamin Friends Lacked Ownership

/ January 2, 2026

Judge Christina Snyder granted summary judgment for VMG Partners and other investors on a Defend Trade Secrets Act claim because plaintiff Vitamin Friends LLC could not show it owned the supplier trade secrets — its affiliate Better Nutritionals did. Repeat fraud, RICO, and breach-of-fiduciary-duty