Ana Ventura v. Roberto I. Herrera

Case 2:23-cv-02069-SB-AFM Document Filed 03/22/ Page 1 of Page ID #:

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ANA VENTURA, Case No. 2:23-cv-02069-SB-AFM

Plaintiff,

v. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

ROBERTO I. HERRERA,

Defendant.

Plaintiff Ana Ventura, who is a paraplegic and requires the use of a wheelchair while in public, filed this suit alleging that Defendant’s beauty salon maintains facilities that are inadequately accessible to 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…