Kelsey

Johnson v. Kelsey

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United States District Court, Northern District of CaliforniaMarch 22, 20224:18-cv-04330-HSGCalifornia252 words

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Trial Court Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 SCOTT JOHNSON, Case No. 18-cv-04330-HSG Plaintiff, ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE Vv. FRANCES I. KELSEY, et al., Defendants.

Plaintiff is ORDERED TO SHOW CAUSE why the Court should not decline to exercise 14 || supplemental jurisdiction over his Unruh Civil Rights Act claim for the reasons stated in Arroyo vy. Rosas, 19 F.4th 1202 (9th Cir. 2021). Although that decision held that a district court erred in a 16 || declining to exercise jurisdiction over an Unruh Act claim when the court had already determined 17 || the plaintiff was entitled to judgment on a parallel ADA claim, the Ninth Circuit had “little 18 || difficulty concluding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that the 19 || situation presented ... involves ‘exceptional circumstances’” sufficient to decline supplemental 20 || jurisdiction if the issue had been raised at an earlier stage of the case. Id. at 1214. The Court…

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