Harrell
Harrell v. California State University
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JOSHUA HARRELL, Case No. 23-cv-02210-PCP
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO
v. REMAND AND GRANTING MOTION
TO DISMISS
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 60, 64 11 Defendants.
12 In February 2023, pro se plaintiff Joshua Harrell filed this civil rights lawsuit against California State University (CSU), San Jose State University (SJSU), and eight individual CSU employees in California state court. Defendants removed the lawsuit to this Court in May 2023. Harrell now moves to remand the lawsuit and defendants move to dismiss it. For the following reasons, the Court denies Harrell’s motion to remand and grants defendants’ motion to dismiss. BACKGROUND Harrell was a student at San Jose State University (SJSU). Their claims arise from two distinct incidents.1 On April 20, 2022, after Harrell completed a midterm exam at SJSU’s Alternative Testing Center (due to…