Dinslage

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JIM DINSLAGE, Case No. 25-cv-02562-VC

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

v. REMAND

ARB GAMING, LLC, Re: Dkt. No. 15 Defendant.

The motion to remand is granted. Dinslage claims that ARB Gaming is violating California’s UCL and CLRA by operating an illegal gaming website. He seeks an injunction enjoining ARB from operating the website in California. Because this type of injunction would have the “primary purpose and effect of prohibiting unlawful acts that threaten future injury to the general public,” the parties agree that he is seeking a public injunction. McGill v. Citibank, N.A., 2 Cal. 5th 945, 955 (2017). Dinslage argues that this case should be remanded to state court because he does not allege future injury from use of ARB’s website and so there are no allegations supporting Article III standing for injunctive relief in federal court. See Summers v. Earth Island Institute, 555 U.S. 488, 493 (2009). Dinslage alleges that he has a gambling addiction and is a former user of ARB’s website who lost money gambling on the website. But he does not allege…