Ana Ventura v. Martha Aguilar

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ANA VENTURA, Case No. 2:24-cv-07326-SB-SSC

Plaintiff,

v. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

MARTHA AGUILAR et al.,

Defendants.

Plaintiff Ana Ventura, who is a paraplegic and is substantially limited in her ability to walk, filed this suit alleging that Defendants’ facility imposes barriers that impeded Plaintiff’s access, 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— (1) the…