(UD) (PS) Stonegate Apartments L.P. v. Jackson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 STONEGATE APARTMENTS L.P., No. 2:25-cv-01077-DJC-CKD Plaintiff, v. ORDER DANA JACKSON, Defendant. 16 This is an unlawful detainer action brought under California state law by Plaintiff Stonegate Apartments L.P. against Defendant Dana Jackson. On Friday, April 11, 2025, Defendant filed a Notice of Removal in federal court, seeking to remove this action from Sacramento County Superior Court. (Notice of Removal (ECF No. 1).) A district court has “a duty to establish subject matter jurisdiction over the removed action sua sponte, whether the parties raised the issue or not.” United Investors Life Ins. Co. v. Waddell & Reed, Inc., 360 F.3d 960, 967 (9th Cir. 2004). The removal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1441, is strictly construed against removal jurisdiction. Geographic Expeditions, Inc. v. Estate of Lhotka, 599 F.3d 1102, 1107 (9th Cir. 2010); Provincial Gov’t of Marinduque v. Placer Dome, Inc., 582 F.3d 1083, 1087 (9th Cir. 27 …