Monteverde & Associates PC v. Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 MONTEVERDE & ASSOCIATES PC, Case No. 24-cv-08935-AMO

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

v. REMAND

HARPOON THERAPEUTICS, INC., Re: Dkt. No. 13 Defendant.

12 Before the Court is Plaintiff Monteverde & Associates P.C.’s motion to remand this case to San Mateo Superior Court. ECF 13. Having considered the parties’ papers and the arguments made therein, as well as the relevant legal authority, the Court finds that federal jurisdiction is not proper over this matter. Because it invokes the Court’s jurisdiction, Harpoon bears the burden of establishing that removal was proper. Geographic Expeditions, Inc. v. Estate of Lhotka ex rel. Lhotka, 599 F.3d 1102, 1106-07 (9th Cir. 2010) (“A removing defendant bears the burden of establishing by a preponderance of the evidence that removal was proper.”) Harpoon contends that the “state-law claim[s] necessarily state[] a federal issue, actually disputed and substantial, which a federal forum …