O'Keefe
O'Keefe v. Target Corporation
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ALISON R. O’KEEFE, et al., Case No. 19-cv-08470-JCS
Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v. AMEND COMPLAINT AND REMAND
TARGET CORPORATION, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 20 Defendants.
Plaintiffs Alison and Jonathan O’Keefe brought this action in the California Superior Court for Sonoma County, where it was assigned case number SCV-265337, against Defendant Target Corporation and a number of then-unidentified Doe Defendants, alleging that Alison O’Keefe was injured by the negligence of one or more Target employees when she was struck by a restocking cart while shopping at a Target store. Target removed to this Court based on diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332. After the Court granted them leave to serve an early interrogatory, the O’Keefes have identified Tiago Bettencourt as the employee who allegedly pushed the cart that struck Alison O’Keefe, and the O’Keefes now move both to amend their complaint to identify Bettencourt as one of the…