Judge Lin dismisses Psynergy Enterprise Developments LLC’s suit against Italian Arabian-horse training center Capecci Arabian Training Center and its principals for lack of personal jurisdiction, holding that the agreement at issue contains no forum-selection clause and the Italian defendants did no
Central District of California dismisses every claim in a lemon-law suit over an EGR-cooler defect, holding the Song-Beverly claims are barred by the four-year UCC statute of limitations and that the fraudulent-concealment claim fails Rule 9(b)’s heightened particularity requirement.
Magistrate Judge Lee denies plaintiff John Thornhill’s motion to remand his California wage-and-hour class action against McLane Foodservice, Inc., finding that McLane has met its burden to show more than $5 million is at stake under the Class Action Fairness Act.
Judge Breyer enters a third federal pre-filing order against pro se serial litigant Kuang-Bao Paul Ou-Young, requiring him to obtain advance leave of court before filing further in propria persona suits against the U.S. District Court Clerk of Court Mark Busby or any employee of the U.S. Attorney’s
Central District of California denies remand of a misappropriation-of-likeness suit, holding that a plaintiff’s rejection of a $75,001 settlement offer is an “other paper” that started the 30-day removal clock and itself proved the amount in controversy.
Judge Gilliam remands a putative class action against Delta Dental of California to San Francisco Superior Court for lack of Article III standing, after Delta Dental removed the case based on the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act and immediately moved to dismiss for lack of standing — a
Central District of California holds that a ramp agent’s product-liability and negligence claims against airport equipment companies do not “arise under” California workers’ compensation law and may be removed to federal court despite Section 1445(c).
Central District of California affirms denial of Supplemental Security Income, holding that the ALJ properly evaluated a consultative examiner’s opinion and that 23,000 cashier-II jobs in the national economy is a “significant number” at step five.
Central District of California denies remand of a Chevrolet Silverado lemon-law case, holding that civil penalties for an alleged willful Song-Beverly violation count toward the federal amount-in-controversy requirement and that the manufacturer need not prove willfulness to invoke that calculation.
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