The court dismissed a putative class action filed under the Class Action Fairness Act on its own initiative, ruling that minimal diversity was missing because both the named plaintiff and the defendant were California citizens, and the complaint’s bare conclusion that more than $5 million was
After the defendant’s counsel ultimately confirmed that the company had received the complaint on August 1, 2025, the court ruled the September 25, 2025 notice of removal was filed weeks past the 30-day deadline and remanded the case to state court, declining to award sanctions because there w
After defendants ignored a court order to pay an $11,400 attorney-fee award, the magistrate judge certified facts to the district judge supporting civil contempt and recommended a coercive per-diem fine, but recommended denying the plaintiff’s request for additional fees on the contempt motion
The court dismissed without prejudice an immigration habeas petition that had been signed by the detainee’s long-term partner as ‘next friend,’ ruling that even if the partner had a basis for next-friend standing under Whitmore v. Arkansas, she could not represent the detainee whil
After granting the plaintiff’s request to proceed without paying the filing fee, the court dismissed her five-sentence complaint alleging RICO and due-process violations against a single defendant for failure to state a plausible claim and noted serious doubts about whether venue was proper in
The court denied remand in a Song-Beverly Act/Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act lemon-law case against General Motors over a 2018 GMC Yukon, ruling that GM’s removal was timely because the federal MMWA claim alone did not affirmatively show the amount in controversy and pre-litigation repair records
The court denied a detainee plaintiff’s motion to proceed without paying the filing fee under the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s three-strikes rule and dismissed the complaint, citing more than 600 prior civil filings nationwide and dozens of prior dismissals for frivolousness or failure
The court remanded a Private Attorneys General Act case against Southwest Airlines to state court because the airline failed to plausibly show more than $75,000 was at stake when the plaintiff’s individual share of attorney’s fees and PAGA penalties were properly calculated.
In a federal False Claims Act case alleging that Abbott Laboratories used illegal kickbacks disguised as physician education for its MitraClip heart device, the magistrate judge declined to strike the relator’s late-filed expert report on medical-education standards, finding that even though t
In a personal-injury case alleging that a recalled bone allograft caused the plaintiff to test positive for tuberculosis, the court denied remand to state court, ruling that the LLC defendant the plaintiff identified as a California citizen was actually a wholly owned subsidiary of a Japanese corpor
After a hearing, the federal court granted the plaintiffs’ motion to remand a wrongful-death case to state court and ordered the removing defendants to pay attorney’s fees, finding their removal lacked an objectively reasonable basis under the Ninth Circuit’s recent decision in Chi
The court remanded a quiet-title and declaratory-relief action concerning San Diego real property to state court under the forum-defendant rule, ruling that the California-based defendants could not remove the case to federal court even though diversity existed and rejecting the defendants’ wa