Spall
Spall v. Stryker Corporation
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JOANNA SPALL, Case No. 21-cv-04292-EMC
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S
v. MOTION TO REMAND
STRYKER CORPORATION, et al., Docket No. 12 Defendants.
12 13 Pending before the Court is Plaintiff Joanna Spall’s motion to remand this case to state court. See Docket No. 12 (“Mot.”). For the following reasons, the motion is DENIED. I. BACKGROUND Plaintiff, a California resident, alleges that she was sexually harassed and retaliated against by Defendant Scott Courts, also a California resident, from August 2017 to November 2018 while working for Defendant Stryker Corporation (“Stryker”), a Michigan corporation. Mot. at 1; Docket No. 1-2 (“Compl.”) ¶¶ 1–3, 10–15. On September 30, 2019, Plaintiff submitted an intake form to the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) setting forth the details of Mr. Courts’s harassment. Docket No. 12-1 (“Aqui Decl.”) ¶ 2. She was…