Nicole Perez v. Lowes Home Centers, LLC

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CIVIL MINUTES – GENERAL

Case No. 5:20-cv-00150-JLS-SHK Date: April 08, 2020 Title: Nicole Perez v. Lowes Home Centers, LLC et al.

Present: Honorable JOSEPHINE L. STATON, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Terry Guerrero N/A Deputy Clerk Court Reporter

ATTORNEYS PRESENT FOR PLAINTIFF: ATTORNEYS PRESENT FOR DEFENDANT:

Not Present Not Present

PROCEEDINGS: (IN CHAMBERS) ORDER (1) GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S

MOTION TO REMAND (Doc. 9) AND (2) DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR RULE 11 SANCTIONS (Doc. 12)

This is a workplace discrimination and wrongful termination action originally filed by Plaintiff Nicole Perez in San Bernardino County Superior Court on April 30, 2019. (Compl., Doc. 3-3.) Lowes removed the action to this Court on January 22, 2020, within thirty days following service of Perez’s Statement of Damages, asserting that an exercise of federal diversity jurisdiction is appropriate under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1332, 1441, 1446. (Notice of Removal ¶¶ 7-9,…