Dhaliwal

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 TANBEER SINGH BRAR AND No. 1:21-cv-00162-DAD-JLT

AMANDEEP KAUR BRAR,

12 Plaintiffs, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO REOPEN v. (Doc. No. 12) PARGAT SINGH DHALIWAL, et al. 15 Defendants.

17 Before the court is pro se plaintiffs’ motion to reopen this closed action filed on February 22, 2021. (Doc. No. 12.) The court dismissed this case sua sponte on February 16, 2021 due to lack of subject matter jurisdiction. (Doc. No. 9.) In their motion, plaintiffs request that the court reopen this matter because they are asserting federal question jurisdiction and not diversity jurisdiction, as mistakenly indicated on their form complaint (Doc. No. 1 at 3). (Doc. No. 12 at 2.) As the court has advised plaintiffs previously, “[f]ederal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction.” Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am., 511 U.S. 375, 377 (1994). “[S]ubject matter jurisdiction of the district court is not a waivable matter and may…