(PS) Nguyen v. Cache Creek Casino Resort

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 HUNG M. NGUYEN, No. 2:20-cv-1748-TLN-KJN PS Plaintiff, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON

DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS

v. (ECF No. 24, 29.) CACHE CREEK CASINO RESORT, Defendant. 16 Plaintiff Hung M. Nguyen, proceeding pro se after paying the filing fee through installments, asserts various federal- and state-law claims against defendant Cache Creek Casino Resort concerning Nguyen’s detention on the Casino’s premises. (ECF No. 1.) On November 24, 2020, Cache Creek entered a special appearance in order to contest the court’s subject matter jurisdiction. (ECF No. 12.) Cache Creek argues that as an enterprise wholly owned by a sovereign tribal entity, the court has no power to rule on Nguyen’s claims. Nguyen opposed dismissal, contending among other things that jurisdiction exists from the federal statutes pleaded. (ECF No. 25.) Cache Creek replied (ECF No. 28), and the court took the matter under submission (ECF No. 27). The…