Josephine Tehrani v. Amazon Studios LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
10 JOSEPHINE TEHRANI, individually Case No.: 2:23-cv-06385-CBM-JCx and on behalf of other persons similarly situated, ORDER RE: PLAINTIFF’S Plaintiff, MOTION TO REMAND, v. DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO
DISMISS [14] [15]
AMAZON STUDIOS, LLC, a California Limited Liability Company; and DOES 1 through 50, inclusive, 16 Defendant. 17 18 The matters before the Court are (1) Plaintiff Josephine Tehrani’s Motion to Remand (Dkt. No. 15) and (2) Defendant Amazon Studios, LLC’s (“Amazon”) Motion to Dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) (Dkt. No. 14). I. BACKGROUND This is a class action employment lawsuit for unpaid wages under California state law, filed in state court on May 3, 2023. Plaintiff alleges that she and other “non-union” background actors who worked on the Candy Cane Lane film set were underpaid by Amazon because Amazon failed to take into account certain “non- discretionary incentive pay” when calculating class members’ regular rate of pay, thereby…