Green

MEMORANDUM **

Allegra Green filed this pro se action in state court against (1) an arbitrator; (2) the arbitrator’s law firm; (3) the American Arbitration Association; (4) her former employer; (5) corporate affiliates of her former employer; and (6) the employer’s law firm. Defendants removed the case to federal court and successfully moved for dismissal. On appeal, Green argues that the district court erred by refusing to remand her case to state court and by dismissing the federal action. We affirm.

The district court properly dismissed the non-diverse defendants, the arbitrator and his law firm, because they were fraudulently joined. See United Computer Sys., Inc. v. AT & T Corp., 298 F.3d 756 , 761 (9th Cir.2002) (explaining doctrine of fraudulent joinder). Green’s claims against these defendants arising from arbitration fail as a matter of law because they are barred by the doctrine of arbitral immunity. See Wasyl Inc. v. First Boston Corp., 813 F.2d 1579, 1582 (9th Cir.1987) (“arbitrators are immune from civil liability for acts within their jurisdiction arising out of their arbitral functions in contractually agreed upon arbitration hearings”). Green’s claim against the…