Hender

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 ALEXANDRA HENDER, No. 2:19-cv-01951-KJM-DMC 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER 14 AMERICAN DIRECTIONS

WORKFORCE LLC; AMERICAN

15 DIRECTIONS GROUP, INC.; and DOES 1 THROUGH 100, inclusive, 16 Defendants. 17 18 19 Alexandra Hender (“plaintiff”) brings this putative class action for several alleged 20 California Labor Code violations. Defendants American Directions Workforce LLC and 21 American Directions Group, Inc. (collectively “defendants”) removed the case to this court. Not. 22 of Removal (“NOR”) ¶ 1, ECF No. 1. Plaintiff moves to remand to Shasta County Superior 23 Court. Mot. to Remand (“Mot.”), ECF No. 9. Defendants oppose the motion, Opp’n, ECF No. 24 14, and plaintiff has replied, Reply, ECF No. 16. As explained below, the court GRANTS 25 plaintiff’s motion to remand. 26 ///// 27 ///// 28 ///// 1 I. BACKGROUND 2 On July 23, 2019, plaintiff filed this putative class action in Shasta County 3 Superior Court, making the following claims: (1) failure…