Thieriot
Thieriot v. Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
ELISABETH I. THIERIOT, Case No. 24-cv-07476-AGT
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR
v. RECONSIDERATION
PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COM- Re: Dkt. No. 14 PANY, et al., Defendants.
Plaintiff Elisabeth Thieriot (Thieriot) files a motion for clarification or reconsidera- tion in response to the Court’s second screening order. See dkt. 14 (motion); dkt. 13 (second screening order). The Court now denies the motion for reconsideration. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b). Nothing in the instant motion for clarification or reconsideration changes the Court’s decision up to this point. Federal courts have limited jurisdiction. Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am., 511 U.S. 375, 377 (1994). For a federal court to exercise subject matter jurisdiction, there must be either diversity jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a), or federal question jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1331. Thieriot’s first amended complaint at dkt. 11 failed, among other things, to state a claim over which the Court has subject matter jurisdiction. As such, the Court issued a sec- ond screening order at dkt. …