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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 DRY CREEK VILLAGE APARTMENTS, LLC, ) Case No.: 1:22-cv-01405-JLT-EPG ) 12 Plaintiff, ) ) 13 v. ) ORDER SUA SPONTE REMANDING CASE ) TO STANISLAUS COUNTY SUPERIOR 14 ALEXA RIOS, et al., ) COURT ) 15 Defendants. ) ) 16 ) 17 Plaintiff initiated this action by filing a complaint for unlawful detainer in Stanislaus County 18 Superior Court, Case No. UD-22-000945. (Doc. 1 at 5–10.) Defendants filed a Notice of Removal to 19 initiate the matter before this Court. (Doc. 1.) For the reasons set forth below, the Court finds it lacks 20 subject matter jurisdiction over the action and therefore REMANDS the matter to Stanislaus County 21 Superior Court. 22 I. Removal Jurisdiction 23 Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a), a defendant has the right to remove a matter to federal court 24 where the district court would have original jurisdiction. Caterpillar, Inc. v. Williams, 482 U.S. 286, 25 392 (1987). Specifically, 26 Except…