Salter

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 SHAWN SALTER, No. 2:25-cv-01482-DJC-CSK 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER 14 UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, Inc., et al., 15 Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff Shawn Salter originally filed the present suit in Sacramento County 18 Superior Court against his former employer, Defendant United Parcel Service, Inc. 19 (“UPS”), and four UPS employees, Defendants Roger Carney, Lee Maruta, Kim Tse, and 20 Matthew Woodruff. Plaintiff claims that while employed by Defendant UPS, he was 21 subject to discrimination, harassment, and retaliation on the basis of disability and 22 race. Plaintiff also claims that he was not provided with reasonable accommodations 23 and that he faced retaliation for engaging in protected activities under FEHA as well 24 as for his actions as a whistleblower. 25 Defendant UPS removed this action, asserting this Court had diversity of 26 citizenship as Defendants Carney, Maruta, Tse, and Woodruff were sham defendants. 27 (Notice of Removal (ECF No. 1) at 3–7.) Defendants Carney, Maruta,…