Higginbotham
Higginbotham v. Southeast Employee Leasing Services, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MICHAEL HIGGINBOTHAM, and No. 2:20-cv-00575-KJM-DB
MARCELINO DECIERDO,
12 Plaintiffs, ORDER v.
SOUTH EAST EMPLOYEE LEASING
SERVICES, INC, and SOUTH EAST
PERSONNEL LEASING SERVICES,
INC., Defendants. 18 Plaintiffs Michael Higginbotham and Marcelino Decierdo (“plaintiffs”) move to remand this action to San Joaquin County Superior Court. Mot., ECF No. 10. Defendants South East Employee Leasing Services, Inc. and South East Personnel Leasing Services, Inc. oppose the motion. Opp’n, ECF No. 11. Plaintiffs replied. Reply. ECF No. 14. The court submitted the motion on the papers. Having reviewed the notice of removal, the complaint, the moving papers, and the applicable law, the court GRANTS the motion. I. BACKGROUND This representative action under California’s Private Attorney General Act (“PAGA”), Cal. Lab. Code § 2698 et seq., arises from plaintiffs’ employment by defendants as 1 …