Johnson v. Sierra Gate LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SCOTT JOHNSON, Case No. 21-cv-08420-VC

Plaintiff,

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

v. Re: Dkt. No. 23, 28, 30, 31 SIERRA GATE LLC, et al., Defendants.

On April 19, 2022, the Court issued an order to show cause. In the order, the Court expressed doubt about whether it should exercise supplemental jurisdiction over Johnson’s Unruh Act claim and questioned whether Johnson had Article III standing to assert his ADA claim for injunctive relief. See Dkt. No. 23. Johnson responded with a brief and two declarations, requesting that the Court retain jurisdiction over his Unruh Act claim and detailing his intent to return to the subject property once the alleged barriers are remedied and the case has concluded. See Dkt. No. 28. It is now clear that the documents filed by Johnson and his counsel in response to the order to show cause were incomplete and misleading. They were boilerplate submissions— virtually identical to the documents filed by Johnson and his counsel in response to orders to show cause issued in many other cases. As such, they omitted several important facts about this case, raising serious questions…