Ruiz
Margarita Ruiz v. Conagra Foods Packaged Foods, LLC
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 MARGARITA RUIZ, No. 2:24-cv-02374-DAD-CSK 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION
TO REMAND
14 CONAGRA FOODS PACKAGED FOODS, LLC, (Doc. No. 19) 15 Defendant. 16
17 18 This matter is before the court on plaintiff’s motion to remand this action to the Stanislaus 19 County Superior Court. (Doc. No. 19.) The pending motion was taken under submission on the 20 papers on June 6, 2025. (Doc No. 21.) For the reasons explained below, plaintiff’s motion to 21 remand will be denied. 22 BACKGROUND 23 On July 24, 2024, plaintiff Margarita Ruiz, on behalf of herself and all other current and 24 former non-exempt California employees of defendant, filed a complaint initiating this action in 25 the Stanislaus County Superior Court against Conagra Foods Packaged Foods, LLC (“defendant”) 26 and unnamed defendants Does 1 through 100. (Doc. No. 1-1 at ¶¶ 1, 3–4.) As relevant to this 27 order resolving the pending motion,…