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Case 8:22-cv-00785-DOC-KES Document Filed 04/15/ Page 1 of Page ID #:

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WESTERN NATIONAL SECURITIES

CASE NUMBER:

5 8:22-cv-00785-DOC-KES Plaintiff(s), v. CRYSTAL K. JONES, et al.

ORDER REMANDING CASE TO

STATE COURT 10 Defendant(s). 11 The Court sua sponte REMANDS this action to the California Superior Court for the 13 County of O r a n g e for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, as set forth below. “The right of removal is entirely a creature of statute and ‘a suit commenced in a state 15 court must remain there until cause is shown for its transfer under some act of Congress.’” 16 Syngenta Crop Prot., Inc. v. Henson, 537 U.S. 28, 32 (2002) (quoting Great N. Ry. Co. v. 17 Alexander, 246 U.S. 276, 280 (1918)). Generally, where Congress has acted to create a right of 18 removal, those statutes are strictly construed against removal jurisdiction. Id.; Nevada v. Bank of 19 Am. Corp., 672 F.3d 661, 667 (9th Cir. 2012); Gaus v.…