O'Keefe

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 ALISON R. O’KEEFE, et al., Case No. 19-cv-08470-JCS

8 Plaintiffs,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

9 v. AMEND COMPLAINT AND REMAND

10 TARGET CORPORATION, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 20 Defendants. 11

12 Plaintiffs Alison and Jonathan O’Keefe brought this action in the California Superior Court 13 for Sonoma County, where it was assigned case number SCV-265337, against Defendant Target 14 Corporation and a number of then-unidentified Doe Defendants, alleging that Alison O’Keefe was 15 injured by the negligence of one or more Target employees when she was struck by a restocking 16 cart while shopping at a Target store. Target removed to this Court based on diversity jurisdiction 17 under 28 U.S.C. § 1332. After the Court granted them leave to serve an early interrogatory, the 18 O’Keefes have identified Tiago Bettencourt as the employee who allegedly pushed the cart that 19 struck Alison O’Keefe, and the O’Keefes now move both to amend their complaint to identify 20 Bettencourt as one of the…