Gladys Copeland v. Morgan Stanley Capital Trust

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2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 GLADYS COPELAND et al., ) No. CV 23-3536-AB (JPR) ) Plaintiffs, ) ORDER REMANDING STATE-COURT ) ACTIONS TO STATE COURT v. ) ) MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL ) TRUST et al., ) ) Defendants. ) 16 On June 15, 2023, Plaintiffs in this civil-rights action filed a Notice of Removal, their second such attempt, purporting to remove Los Angeles County Superior Court case numbers 22lbud01600, 22lbud01762, 22lbud01781, and 22lbud01792 to this Court and asking that they be consolidated with this case. To the extent they have successfully removed those cases here, the Court sua sponte REMANDS them to the superior court 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 court must remain there until cause is shown for its transfer under some act of Congress.’” Syngenta Crop Prot., Inc. v. Henson, 537 U.S.…