Garcia

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 Leticia Garcia, No. 2:24-cv-00563-KJM-SCR 12 Plaintiff, ORDER 13 v. Ford Motor Company et al., Defendants. 16 17 18 Plaintiff Leticia Garcia sued Ford Motor Company in state court, alleging she bought a 19 | defective car from Ford. Ford removed the action to this court on the basis of diversity 20 | jurisdiction. Garcia now moves to amend her complaint to add a negligence claim against Tracy 21 | Ford, a California corporation. Garcia also seeks remand because with the addition of Tracy 22 | Ford, the parties would no longer be completely diverse, and this court would lack jurisdiction to 23 | hear this action. For the following reasons, the court grants the motion to amend and remands 24 | the action to state court. 25 | I. BACKGROUND 26 In 2023, Garcia bought a Ford truck. See Mot. Amend (Mot.) Ex. A at 3, ECF No. 17-2. 27 | She alleges the truck was defective. See generally Not. Removal Ex. A (Compl.), ECF No. 1-2. 28 | Garcia…