Yeong Lee v. Magnolia Plaza At Fountain Valley LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

YEONG LEE, Case No. 8:24-cv-01376-SB-PVC

Plaintiff,

v. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

MAGNOLIA PLAZA AT FOUNTAIN

VALLEY LLC,

Defendant.

Plaintiff Yeong Lee, who is a transfemoral amputee and is substantially limited in her ability to walk, filed this suit alleging that Defendant failed to maintain adequate parking facilities, in violation of, inter alia, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Unruh Act. Dkt. No. 1.

Because Plaintiff’s Unruh Act claim is closely related to her ADA claim, the Court has authority to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the Unruh Act claim under 28 U.S.C. § 1367(a). However, supplemental jurisdiction “is a doctrine of discretion, not of plaintiff’s right,” and district courts “can decline to exercise jurisdiction over pendent claims for a number of valid reasons.” City of Chi. v. Int’l Coll. of Surgeons, 522 U.S. 156, 172 (1997) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). This discretion is codified in § 1367(c):

The district courts may decline to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over a claim under subsection (a) if—…