The Gooden Group Inc. v. Tommy James

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3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

9 The Gooden Group Inc. CASE NUMBER: 10 2:19-cv-08998-CAS (SKx) Plaintiff Vv. 13 || Tommy James, et al.

ORDER REMANDING CASE TO

STATE COURT Defendant(s). 16 The Court sua sponte REMANDS this action to the California Superior Court for the |]County of Los Angeles 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 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 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…