Nieves

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 LUCINDA NIEVES, Case No. 3:22-cv-00977-JD

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE REMAND

v.

COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION, et al., 11 Defendants.

12 Plaintiff Lucinda Nieves originally filed this lawsuit in the California Superior Court, County of Alameda, for injuries from a slip-and-fall incident at a Costco store in Hayward, California. Dkt. No. 1-1. The complaint alleges two California state law claims for negligence and premises liability against defendants Costco Wholesale Corporation (“Costco”) and Costco store manager Kari Shields. Costco removed the action to this Court on diversity grounds. Dkt. No. 1. Nieves has asked for the case to be remanded to state court because she and Shields are citizens of California. Dkt. No. 12. Costco says that Shields should be disregarded for diversity purposes on fraudulent joinder grounds. Dkt. No. 13. The motion is suitable for decision without oral argument. Dkt. No. 16. The case was removed improvidently and without…