Roberts

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Thomas Roberts, No. 2:24-cv-01155-KJM-DMC Plaintiff, ORDER v. Pacific Woodtech Corporation, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 Defendant Pacific Woodtech Corporation removed this action from state court based on 18 its allegation that the parties are diverse and the amount in controversy exceeds $75,000. See generally Not. Removal, ECF No. 1. Plaintiff Thomas Roberts contests Pacific’s allegations 20 about the amount in controversy and moves to remand the case to state court. As explained in this order, Pacific has not shown, as it must in response to Roberts’s motion, that the amount in 22 controversy exceeds $75,000, so the motion to remand is granted. 23 I. BACKGROUND Pacific manufactures engineered wood products, such as beams, headers and studs. Compl. § 15, ECF No. 2-2. Roberts worked for Pacific as a forklift operator in Red Bluff, 26 California for more than twenty…