Amado

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 SARAH IRENE AMADO, an individual, Case No. 1:24-cv-606 JLT HBK 12 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR

REMAND

13 v. (Doc. 9) 14 HOME DEPOT U.S.A., INC., a Delaware Corporation; KACY LELIEVRE, an 15 individual; and DOES 1 through 50, inclusive, 16 Defendants. 17 18 Before the Court is Sarah Amado’s motion to remand for lack of subject matter 19 jurisdiction (Doc. 9). Amado filed the pending motion after defendants removed it from Merced 20 County Superior Court to this Court under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1441(b), 1446. (See Doc. 1.) Defendants 21 based removal on the Court’s diversity jurisdiction while asserting diversity of citizenship exists 22 among the parties. (Id.) Amado contends that because Kacy Lelievre, one of Home Depot’s local 23 store managers, is a defendant, complete diversity of citizenship does not exist. (See generally 24 Doc. 9.) Though the Court has strong doubts as to the sincerity of the action as to Ms. Lelievre, 25 relevant authorities require it to GRANT the motion and REMAND the action back to…