Central District of California denies remand of a Song-Beverly lemon-law case, holding that a state-court civil case cover sheet checking a damages box is not an “initial pleading” or “other paper” that starts the 30-day removal clock.
Judge Donato grants summary judgment for Maximus Grisso and remands the SSA’s denial of his Title II disability insurance benefits, holding that the administrative law judge erred at step two of the five-step sequential evaluation by finding Grisso’s fibromyalgia not a severe impairment.
Magistrate Judge Cisneros remands a foreclosure-following unlawful detainer action to Alameda County Superior Court for the second time and partially grants attorney’s fees against the pro se removing tenant, holding the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act provides a federal defense, not federal-q
Central District of California remands a putative wage-and-hour class action, holding that an employer’s speculative estimate of the named plaintiff’s attorneys’ fees cannot satisfy the $75,000 federal amount-in-controversy requirement.
Central District of California denies a federal prisoner’s petition to be transported approximately 1,500 miles to testify in person at a private Texas civil trial, finding the cost and security burdens outweigh the benefits.
The court compelled arbitration of a former CVS employee’s discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage claims, ruling that CVS met its burden of authenticating her electronic signature on a 2017 arbitration agreement and that her bare assertion that her supervisor logged in and signed fo
Eastern District of California allows a civil detainee at DSH-Coalinga to proceed on his Fourteenth Amendment claim that the conditions of his confinement as a sexually violent predator are no less restrictive than those of prison inmates, while dismissing his challenge to the SVP treatment program
Eastern District of California recommends remanding a partial denial of Social Security disability benefits because the vocational expert’s testimony failed to adequately resolve an apparent conflict between the claimant’s limitation to simple, repetitive tasks and the Dictionary of Occu
A magistrate judge in the Eastern District of California recommends granting in part a habeas corpus petition for a Mexican national detained at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center, holding that someone who has lived in the United States for over 20 years and was apprehended in the interior is not
Eastern District of California dismisses Sutter Davis Hospital’s crossclaim for indemnity and contribution against the United States, holding that the century-old derivative jurisdiction doctrine bars federal jurisdiction over a state-court crossclaim that the federal government later removed.