Travelers Casualty Insurance Company of America v. LMID, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

TRAVELERS CASUALTY Case No. 2:24-cv-01022-SB-JC

INSURANCE COMPANY OF

AMERICA,

Plaintiff,

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE

v. SUBJECT-MATTER

JURISDICTION

LMID, INC. et al.,

Defendants.

Plaintiff Travelers Casualty Insurance Company of America brings this insurance-dispute action against Defendants LMID, Inc., 1536 Blue Jay Way, LLC, and Michael Herman. Dkt. No. 1.

Federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction only over matters authorized by the U.S. Constitution and Congress. See e.g., Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co., 511 U.S. 375, 377 (1994). This Court has a duty to assess whether federal subject-matter jurisdiction exists and may consider the issue sua sponte at any stage of the proceedings. See Allstate Ins. Co. v. Hughes, 358 F.3d 1089, 1093 (9th Cir. 2004); see also Ruhrgas AG v. Marathon Oil Co., 526 U.S. 574, 583 (1999) (recognizing that “Article III generally requires a federal court to satisfy itself of its jurisdiction over the subject matter before it considers the merits of a case”).

A federal district court has original jurisdiction over a civil action…