Gomez
Gomez v. Harrow Cellars
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ANDRES GOMEZ, Case No. 22-cv-01071-JST
Plaintiff,
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
v.
HARROW CELLARS, Defendant.
12 On February 2, 2022, Plaintiff Andres Gomez filed this action against Defendant Harrow Cellars, alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act (“Unruh Act”) in relation to the website for the Sojourn Cellars winery (which Harrow Cellars owns) in Sonoma, California. ECF No. 1. Plaintiff seeks declaratory and injunctive relief under the ADA, nominal damages, statutory damages under the Unruh Act, and attorney’s fees and costs. Id. at 9. Plaintiff contends that this Court has federal question jurisdiction over the ADA claim and supplemental jurisdiction over the Unruh Act and other state law claims. Id. ¶¶ 7-8. Supplemental jurisdiction “is a doctrine of discretion, not of plaintiff’s right.” United Mine Workers v. Gibbs, 383 U.S. 715, 726 (1966). District courts have discretion to decline to exercise 23 …