Schouker

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 PATRICIA SCHOUKER, Case No. 24-cv-07373-JSC

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE: MOTION TO TRANSFER

v. VENUE TO THE EASTERN DISTRICT

OF VIRGINIA

SWARM INDUSTRIES, INC., et al., Re: Dkt. No. 43 Defendants.

12 On October 22, 2024, Patricia Schouker filed suit against her former employer, Swarm Industries, Inc., and its CEO, Steven Bassi, Jr. (collectively, “Defendants”). Plaintiff seeks “declaratory and other relief from Defendants’ months of discrimination against her, for Defendants’ subsequent multiple acts of retaliation once she complained to [Swarm Industries], and for Defendants’ other wrongful conduct against her.” (Dkt. No. 15 ¶ 1.) Defendants moved to dismiss the complaint. (Dkt. No. 39.) Then, Defendants moved to transfer this case to the Eastern District of Virginia where “Swarm Industries and non-party Swarm Technologies filed a suit against Schouker . . . based upon Schouker’s actions in downloading and deleting proprietary …