White
White v. U.S. Center for SafeSport
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CHARLES WHITE, Case No. 22-cv-04468-JD
Petitioner,
SECOND ORDER RE DISMISSAL
v.
U.S. CENTER FOR SAFESPORT, Respondent.
12 Petitioner Charles White has had several opportunities to establish subject matter jurisdiction over his petition to vacate an arbitration award. After the last occasion, when White filed an amended petition with revised jurisdictional allegations, the parties essentially stopped litigating the case. The Court directed the parties to make a decision about their course of action, Dkt. No. 51, which resulted in further litigation of the jurisdictional question, see Dkt. Nos. 52, 55, 57. The parties’ familiarity with the record is assumed, and the case is dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The reasons for dismissal are straightforward. Congress designated respondent United States Center for SafeSport (SafeSport) to investigate and adjudicate allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct within U.S. Olympic and Paralympic…