Shoreline Development Partners, LP v. Cierra Brooks

Case 2:22-cv-06345-SB-JEM Document Filed 09/08/ Page 1 of Page ID #:

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SHORELINE DEVELOPMENT Case No. 2:22-cv-06345-SB-JEM

PARTNERS, LP,

Plaintiff,

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE:

v. REMAND

CIERRA BROOKS et al.,

Defendants.

Pro se Defendant Jeremy Sloan filed a notice of removal and an application to proceed in forma pauperis in this unlawful detainer action filed against him and Defendant Cierra Brooks in state court. Dkt. Nos. 1, 3. The notice of removal contains multiple defects. First, Sloan invokes diversity jurisdiction as the basis for removal,1 but he does not identify the citizenship of any of the parties, contending only that Plaintiff Shoreline Development Partners, LP is a Delaware limited partnership not organized or licensed to do business in California. For purposes of diversity jurisdiction, a partnership is a citizen of each state or country of which any partner is a citizen. Singh v. Am. Honda Fin. Corp., 925 F.3d 1053, 1064 n.10 (9th Cir. 2019). Because Sloan does not identify Plaintiff’s partners and their citizenship or Defendants’…