Metro Gateway, LLC v. Desmond Knox

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CASE NUMBER:

10 ll Plaintiff Vv.

ORDER REMANDING CASE TO

STATE COURT Defendant(s). 16 The Court sua sponte REMANDS this action to the California Superior Court for the 18 || County of for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, as set forth below. “The right of removal is entirely a creature of statute and ‘a suit commenced in a state 20 court must remain there until cause is shown for its transfer under some act of Congress.” Syngenta Crop Prot., Inc. v. Henson, 537 U.S. 28, 32 (2002) (quoting Great N. Ry. Co. v. 22 |] Alexander, 246 U.S. 276, 280 (1918)). Generally, where Congress has acted to create a right of 23 |! removal, those statutes are strictly construed against removal jurisdiction. Id.; Nevada v. Bank of 24 || Am. Corp., 672 F.3d 661, 667 (9th Cir. 2012); Gaus v. Miles, Inc., 980 F.2d 564, 566 (9th Cir. 1992), Unless otherwise expressly provided by Congress, a defendant may remove “any…