Jesus Aguinaga v. First Student Inc.

I. Background

Between 2009 and 2011, 24 separate plaintiffs filed 24 separate non-class action cases in state court against Defendants First Student, Inc., First Transit, Inc., HireRight, Inc., and HireRight Solutions, Inc. See Declaration of Hunter Pyle in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion to Remand (“Pyle Decl.”), Docket No. 10-2, ¶ 6; Notice of Removal, Docket No. 1, at 3-6 (listing the 24 cases). Each case named fewer than 100 plaintiffs, and the 24 cases named a total of approximately 1,397 Plaintiffs. See Pyle Decl. ¶¶ 6-7. There are approximately 1,295 active Plaintiffs at this time, as 102 Plaintiffs were dismissed in 2013. See id. ¶ 7. In 2010 and 2012, the California Judicial Council coordinated the cases in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, under the title First Student Inc. Cases, JCCP 4624. See id. ¶ 10. On April 23, 2013, Plaintiffs filed the operative Consolidated Fourth Amended Complaint. See Consolidated Fourth Amended Complaint (“CFAC”), Pyle Decl. Exh. B. Plaintiffs sued Defendants for violations of California’s Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act (“ICRAA”) (Cal. Civ. Code § 1786 et seq.) and California’s…