King
King v. Praxair Distribution, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 TROY KING, Case No. 3:20-cv-07817-JD
Plaintiff,
ORDER RE JURISDICTION
v.
PRAXAIR DISTRIBUTION, INC., et al., Defendants.
12 Pro se plaintiff King filed a complaint in the California Superior Court alleging a variety of California state discrimination and retaliation claims related to the termination of his employment by defendant Praxair. Dkt. No. 1-1. Praxair removed on the basis of diversity jurisdiction, which King did not challenge. Dkt. No. 1. The case was originally assigned to a magistrate judge for all purposes pending each party’s consent or declination of magistrate judge jurisdiction. Dkt. No. 2. The Clerk of the Court filed a letter directing King to submit a consent or declination form by November 27, 2020. Dkt. No. 8. King did not act by this deadline, and the docket does not indicate that he has ever responded to the question of magistrate judge jurisdiction. The Clerk appears to have treated King’s lack of a response as a…