Schmidt
(UD)(PS) US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development v. Schmidt
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 12 United States Secretary of No. 2:19-cv-01644-JAM-KJN Housing and Urban Development, Plaintiff, SUA SPONTE ORDER REMANDING
ACTION TO STATE COURT
v. Edward Schmidt, Defendant.
20 The undersigned revokes any actual or anticipated referral 21 to a Magistrate Judge for the purposes of Findings and 22 Recommendations in this case. See Local Rule 302(d) 23 (“Notwithstanding any other provision of this Rule, a Judge may 24 retain any matter otherwise routinely referred to a Magistrate 25 Judge.”). 26 On August 23, 2019, Defendant Edward Schmidt filed a Notice 27 of Removal with this Court, seeking to remove an action from the 28 Sacramento Superior Court. Notice of Removal, ECF No. 1. For the following reasons, the Court sua sponte REMANDS this case to Sacramento County Superior Court. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a), a defendant may remove an action to federal court if the district court has original jurisdiction. Hunter v. Phillip Morris USA, 582 F.3d 1039, 1042…