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

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 INNERLINE ENGINEERING, INC., Case No. 22-cv-03663-JSC

Plaintiff,

ORDER ON MOTION TO DISMISS

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

AND WELFARE TRUST FUND FOR

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA; DAN

REDING AND JAMES E. MURRAY,

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