Michael E. Bohnert v. General Motors LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and DOES 1-10, inclusive

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL E. BOHNERT, an 2:25-cv-08186-DSF-BFM individual, Plaintiff, Order DENYING Plaintiff’s Motion to Remand (Dkt. 15) v.

GENERAL MOTORS LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and DOES 1- 10, inclusive, Defendants.

Defendant General Motors LLC (GM) removed this lemon law case on the basis of diversity jurisdiction. Dkt. 1 (NOR). Plaintiff Michael E. Bohnert moves to remand. Dkt. 15 (Mot.). The Court deems this matter appropriate for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 78; Local Rule 7-15. The hearing set for December 8, 2025 is removed from the Court’s calendar. Bohnert’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…