Macomber

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 WALTER CURRIE, No. 2:25-cv-02616 DJC SCR P 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER 14 J. MACOMBER, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff is incarcerated in state prison and proceeding pro se on a civil rights complaint 18 under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On April 4, 2025, plaintiff filed the operative complaint in Amador 19 County Superior Court, alleging a violation of the U.S. Constitution and a California state law 20 claim. On September 11, 2025, defendants paid the filing fee and filed a Notice of Removal 21 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a), removing the action to this federal district court. (ECF No. 1.) 22 Pending before the undersigned is defendants’ motion to withdraw their remand motion 23 (ECF No. 11) and plaintiff’s complaint for screening under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A (ECF No. 1 at 6- 24 38). For the reasons set forth below, the undersigned grants defendants’ motion to withdraw their 25 remand motion and finds that removal is proper pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1331. …