Hassan
Hassan v. Baxter
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 IMAD HASSAN, Case No.: 3:25-cv-0869-CAB-AHG
Plaintiffs,
ORDER DISMISSING COMPLAINT
v. [Doc. No. 1] ANNETE BAXTER,
Defendants. 16 Plaintiff has filed a nearly blank complaint which does not give any notice of the claims at issue against Defendant. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 8. As it relates to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1), “subject-matter jurisdiction, because it involves a court’s power to hear a case, can never be forfeited or waived.” United States v. Cotton, 535 U.S. 625, 630 (2002). This threshold requirement “‘spring[s] from the nature and limits of the judicial power of the United States’ and is ‘inflexible and without exception.’” Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Env’t, 523 U.S. 83, 94–95 (1998) (quoting Mansfield, C. & L.M. Ry. Co. v. Swan, 111 U.S. 379, 382 (1884). As such, the Court can dismiss a case on subject matter-jurisdiction grounds sua sponte. Snell v. Cleveland, Inc., 316 F.3d 822, 826 (9th Cir. 2002).…