Innerline Engineering, Inc. v. Operating Engineers Health and Welfare Trust Fund for Northern California

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 INNERLINE ENGINEERING, INC., Case No. 22-cv-03663-JSC

8 Plaintiff,

ORDER ON MOTION TO DISMISS

v. 9 Re: Dkt. No. 12 10 OPERATING ENGINEERS HEALTH

AND WELFARE TRUST FUND FOR

11 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA; DAN

REDING AND JAMES E. MURRAY,

12 TRUSTEES, et al., Defendants. 13 14 15 Innerline Engineering, Inc, (“Innerline”) brings this lawsuit against Defendants—a series 16 of trust funds and their trustees (collectively, the “Trust Funds”)—seeking declaratory relief and 17 restitution for unjust enrichment. The Trust Funds move to dismiss Innerline’s claims. (Dkt. No. 18 12.) After carefully considered the parties’ briefing and having had the benefit of oral argument 19 on November 10, 2022, the Court GRANTS the Trust Funds’ motion to dismiss to declaratory 20 relief claim and declines to exercise supplemental jurisdiction of the state law unjust enrichment 21 claim. 22 BACKGROUND 23 This dispute arises from an earlier lawsuit—Operating Engineers’ Health and Welfare 24 Trust Fund for…