Whitaker

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BRIAN WHITAKER, No. 2:21-cv-0437 WBS DB Plaintiff, v. ORDER AUTHENTIC SOLE LLC, a California Limited Liability Company, 15 Defendant. 17 This matter came before the undersigned on January 14, 2022, pursuant to Local Rule 302(c)(19), for hearing of plaintiff’s motion for default judgment. (ECF No. 17.) Plaintiff’s motion seeks default judgment on the complaint’s claims that the defendant violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and the California Unruh Civil Rights Act. (ECF No. 13-1 at 7.) Attorney Bradley Smith appeared via Zoom on behalf of the plaintiff. No appearance was made by, on behalf of, the defendant. At that time, oral argument was heard and the motion was taken under submission. Review of plaintiff’s briefing, however, finds that the motion cannot be granted on this record. In this regard, a district court is “required sua sponte to examine jurisdictional issues such as…