460 South Lake Avenue, Ltd. v. Laurent Appleton

1 JS-6 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 460 S. LAKE AVENUE, LTD., Case No. CV 19-10575-CAS (RAOx) 12 Plaintiff,

13 v. ORDER REMANDING ACTION

AND DENYING REQUEST TO

14 LAURENT APPLETON, et al., PROCEED WITHOUT

PREPAYMENT OF FEES OR

15 Defendants. COSTS 16 17 I. 18

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

19 Plaintiff 460 S. Lake Avenue, Ltd. (“Plaintiff”) filed an unlawful detainer 20 action in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Defendants Laurent Appleton 21 and Does 1 to 10 (“Defendants”). Notice of Removal (“Removal”) and Attached 22 Complaint (“Compl.”), Dkt. No. 1. Defendants are allegedly occupants of real 23 property owned by Plaintiff and located in Burbank, California. Compl. ¶¶ 1-6. 24 Plaintiff filed the unlawful detainer action seeking forfeiture of the rental 25 agreement, monetary damages, and reasonable attorney fees. Id. at ¶ 17. 26 Defendant Appleton filed a Notice of Removal on December 13, 2019, 27 invoking the Court’s federal question jurisdiction. …