Hee Soon Park v. Chun S. Tung

Case 2:23-cv-00983-SB-MRW Document Filed 02/10/ Page 1 of Page ID #:

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HEE SOON PARK, Case No. 2:23-cv-00983-SB-MRW

Plaintiff,

v. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

CHUN S. TUNG et al.,

Defendants.

Plaintiff Hee Soon Park, who has neuropathy that substantially limits her ability to walk, filed this suit alleging that Defendant’s business maintains legally insufficient parking facilities for people with disabilities, in violation of, inter alia, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Unruh Act. Dkt. No. 1.

Because Plaintiff’s Unruh Act claim is closely related to her ADA claim, the Court has authority to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the Unruh Act claim under 28 U.S.C. § 367(a). However, supplemental jurisdiction “is a doctrine of discretion, not of plaintiff’s right,” and district courts “can decline to exercise jurisdiction over pendent claims for a number of valid reasons.” City of Chi. v. Int’l Coll. of Surgeons, 522 U.S. 156, 172 (1997) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). This discretion is codified in Section 1367(c):

The…