Bricine Mitchell v. Continental Casualty Insurance
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 BRICINE MITCHELL, Case No. 25-cv-09553-JSC
Plaintiff,
ORDER REMANDING CASE
v. 9 Re: Dkt. Nos. 14, 15 CONTINENTAL CASUALTY
INSURANCE,
11 Defendant.
12 Plaintiff filed this putative class action against Defendant in state court and alleged violations of the California Business & Professions Code. (Dkt. No. 3 at 9-18.) Defendant removed the case to this Court based on diversity jurisdiction. (Id. at 1-7.) Because Defendant had not shown the amount in controversy exceeded the jurisdictional threshold, the Court ordered Defendant to show cause why this action should not be remanded for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. (Dkt. No. 14.) See Urbino v. Orkin Servs. of Cal., Inc., 726 F.3d 1118, 1121-22 (9th Cir. 2013) (“Where, as here, it is unclear or ambiguous from the face of a state-court complaint whether the requisite amount in controversy is pled, the removing defendant bears the burden of establishing, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the amount in…