Johnson v. Tea Hub, LLC

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SCOTT JOHNSON,

Case No. 21-cv-04545-JCS Plaintiff, 6 V. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

TEA HUB, LLC,

Defendant. 9 10 Plaintiff Scott Johnson brings a federal claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act || (“ADA”) and, invoking the Court’s supplemental jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1367, a state law

13 || claim under California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act. The Ninth Circuit has held that comity concerns

14 || arising from California’s procedural rules for disability access cases brought by frequent plaintiffs || like Johnson constitute exceptional circumstances that may be sufficient to decline supplemental a jurisdiction. See Arroyo vy. Rosas, 19 F.4th 1202, 1211-14 (9th Cir. 2021). This Court has

= || previously held that the reasoning of Arroyo warrants declining jurisdiction in a typical case where

18 || a high-frequency litigant has brought parallel ADA and Unruh Act claims and no decision has yet 19 || been reached on the…