Schmidt

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 CHARITY SCHMIDT, No. 2:23-cv-01669-TLN-AC 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER 14 TRAVELERS PROPERTY CASUALTY

COMPANY OF AMERICA; BRIAN

15 GORATH; and DOES 1–100, 16 Defendants. 17 18 19 This matter is before the Court on Plaintiff Charity Schmidt’s (“Plaintiff”) Motion for 20 Remand and Request for Attorneys’ Fees. (ECF No. 4.) Defendants Travelers Property Casualty 21 Company of America and Brian Gorath (collectively, “Defendants”) filed an opposition. (ECF 22 No. 5.) Plaintiff filed a reply. (ECF No. 7.) For the reasons set forth below, the Court GRANTS 23 in part and DENIES in part Plaintiff’s motion. 24 /// 25 /// 26 /// 27 /// 28 /// 1 I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND 2 This case concerns an insurance claim Plaintiff filed with Defendant Travelers Property 3 Casualty Company of America (“Travelers”) in 2021. (ECF No. 1 at 15–40.) Plaintiff is a citizen 4 of California and alleges Defendant Brian Gorath (“Gorath”) is also a citizen of…