Thieriot

Thieriot v. Pacific Gas and Electric Company

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United States District Court, Northern District of CaliforniaApril 7, 20253:24-cv-07476California312 words

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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. …

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