Phillips

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 RACHEL PHILLIPS, Case No. 22-cv-02605-EMC

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S

v. MOTION FOR LEAVE TO AMEND;

AND REMANDING CASE

BERKELEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Docket No. 12 11 Defendants. 12 13 Currently pending before the Court is Plaintiff Rachel Phillips’s motion for leave to amend. Having considered the parties’ submissions, as well as the oral argument of counsel, the Court hereby GRANTS Ms. Phillips’s motion. Ms. Phillips has sued her former high school teacher, Matthew Bissell, and Berkeley Unified School District (“BUSD”) based on alleged sexual harassment by Mr. Bissell while she was a student at Berkeley High. She initiated her case in state court but BUSD removed it to federal court based on diversity jurisdiction after it learned that Ms. Phillips was (and continues to be) a resident of Oregon at the time she filed suit. Ms. Phillips seeks to add to her lawsuit seven women who were also…