Shanna Charles v. Transdev Services, Inc.

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United States District Court Central District of California

11 SHANNA CHARLES, Case № 2:23-cv-02011-ODW (AFMx)

Plaintiff, ORDER REMANDING CASE

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14 TRANSDEV SERVICES, INC. et al.,

15 Defendants.

16 I. INTRODUCTION This is an employment discrimination and wage-and-hour action initially brought 19 in state court by Plaintiff Shanna Charles against her employer Transdev Services, Inc. 20 and Transdev supervisor Brian Otchis. Defendants removed the case to this Court, 21 alleging subject matter jurisdiction based on both diversity and federal preemption 22 under the Labor Management Relations Act (“LMRA”). The Court ordered the parties 23 to show cause why the case should not be remanded for lack of subject matter 24 jurisdiction. (OSC, ECF No. 19.) For the following reasons, the Court finds Defendants 25 fail to establish subject matter jurisdiction and accordingly REMANDS the case. II. BACKGROUND As alleged in the operative Complaint, Charles, a Black woman, began…