Hourigan

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division KAREN O’BRIEN HOURIGAN, Case No. 22-cv-04303-LB

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

DISMISS

v. Re: ECF No. 25 REDGRAVE LLP, et al., Defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION The plaintiff sued her former employer (the law firm Redgrave LLP) and Redgrave’s counsel (Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.) for declaratory and injunctive relief and wants to stop the defendants from compelling her to arbitrate her employment dispute with Redgrave.1 The defendants moved to dismiss the complaint for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.2 The court grants the defendants’ motion. There is no diversity jurisdiction because the plaintiff and defendant Redgrave are California citizens. The plaintiff does not establish federal-question jurisdiction because her claim under the Declaratory Judgment Act is not based on rights that the 25 26 27 1 Compl. – ECF No. – 1 at 22–26 (¶¶ 115–138).…