Sochil Martin v. La Luz Del Mundo
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44 55 66 77 United States District Court 88 Central District of California 99 1100 1111 SOCHIL MARTIN, Case No. 2:20-cv-01437-ODW (ASx)
1122 Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT’S
MOTION TO QUASH SERVICE [90]
1133 v.
1144 LA LUZ DEL MUNDO, an unincorporated association, et al., 1155 Defendants. 1166
1177 1188 I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 1199 On February 20, 2020, Plaintiff Sochil Martin initiated this action against 2200 Defendant La Luz Del Mundo (“LLDM”), and several of its purported leaders, 2211 including Defendant Naasón Joaquin Garcia. (Compl., ECF No. 1.) According to 2222 Martin, LLDM is a church based out of Guadalajara, Mexico, with more than 15,000 2233 houses of prayer around the world. (Id. ¶ 43.) The church has spent the past thirty 2244 years expanding into the United States, and now has over fifty churches in California. 2255 (Id. ¶ 2.) Martin contends that LLDM is a hierarchal organization, and although many 2266 of its affiliate churches have registered with the California Secretary of State as 2277 incorporated entities, the parent organization has…