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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SAMUEL LI, No. 2:19-cv-2256-JAM-EFB Plaintiff, v. SUA SPONTE ORDER REMANDING

ACTION TO STATE COURT

THERESA M DUNCAN, Defendant. 16 The undersigned revokes any actual or anticipated referral to a Magistrate Judge for the purposes of Findings and Recommendations in this case. See Local Rule 302(d) (“Notwithstanding any other provision of this Rule, a Judge may retain any matter otherwise routinely referred to a Magistrate Judge.”). On November 8, 2019, Defendant Theresa Duncan filed a Notice of Removal with this Court, seeking to remove an action from San Joaquin County Superior Court. Notice of Removal, ECF No. 1. For the following reasons, the Court sua sponte REMANDS this case to San Joaquin 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…