Craft

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CYNTHIA CRAFT, Case No. 24-cv-04596-JSC

Plaintiff,

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE:

v. DIVERSITY JURISDICTION

LONGS DRUG STORES CALIFORNIA, Re: Dkt. No. 1 L.L.C., et al., 11 Defendants.

12 Cynthia Craft sues Defendants Longs Drug Stores California L.L.C. (“Longs”) and FW Ca-Bay Hill Shopping Center LLC (“Bay Hill”) for claims arising from a “trip and fall that occurred on or about November 26, 2023.” (Dkt. No. 1-2 ¶ 1.) Defendant Longs removed this action based on diversity jurisdiction, alleging Ms. Craft and Longs are diverse. (Dkt. No. 1 ¶¶ 6- 10.) But a civil action may not be removed based on diversity jurisdiction “if any of the parties in interest properly joined and served as defendants is a citizen of the State in which such action is brought.” 28 U.S.C.A. § 1441(b)(2); see Lincoln Prop. Co. v. Roche, 546 U.S. 81, 90 (2005) (“An in-state plaintiff may invoke diversity jurisdiction, but § 1441(b) bars removal on the basis of …