Kenneth Tate v. General Motors LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KENNETH TATE, an individual, 2:25-cv-07663-DSF-MAA Plaintiff, Order DENYING Plaintiff’s v. Motion to Remand (Dkt. 14)

GENERAL MOTORS LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Defendant.

Defendant General Motors LLC (GM) removed this lemon law case solely on the basis of diversity jurisdiction. Dkt. 1. Plaintiff Kenneth Tate moves to remand. Dkt. 14. The Court deems this matter appropriate for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 78; Local Rule 7-15. Tate’s motion is DENIED.

I. LEGAL STANDARD

“Federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction” and “possess only that power authorized by Constitution and statute[.]” Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am., 511 U.S. 375, 377 (1994). A defendant may remove an action to federal court if the federal court could exercise subject matter jurisdiction over the action. 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a). “The removal statute is strictly construed against removal jurisdiction”; “[t]he defendant bears the burden of establishing that removal is proper.” Provincial Gov’t of Marinduque v. Placer Dome, Inc., 582 F.3d 1083, 1087 (9th Cir. 2009). For federal…