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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KENNETH NEWBY, et al., Case No. 1:24-cv-00886-JLT-SAB

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Respondent. 16 On July 31, 2024, Petitioners initiated this action by filing a motion to vacate an arbitration award that was issued on the same day by an arbitrator in Texas. (ECF No. 1.) Therein, Petitioners allege that this Court has diversity jurisdiction because “there is complete diversity of citizenship between Petitioners, citizens of California, and Respondent, a citizen of Texas and Delaware….” (Id. at ¶ 9.) Upon review of the face of Petitioners’ motion to vacate the arbitration award, the Court finds diversity of citizenship is not sufficiently alleged. See Badgerow v. Walters, 596 U.S. 1, 9 (2022) (“If [the face of the vacatur petition] shows that the contending parties are citizens of different…