Butterfield, Sr. v. General Electric Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 WAYNE BUTTERFIELD, et al., Case No. 23-cv-01620-AMO
Plaintiffs,
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO
v. REMAND
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 52 Defendants.
12 Before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion to remand. The matter is fully briefed and suitable for decision without oral argument. See Civil L.R. 7-6. Having read the parties’ papers and carefully considered their arguments and the relevant legal authority, and good cause appearing, the Court hereby DENIES the motion to remand for the following reasons. I. BACKGROUND This case concerns the wrongful death of Charlotte Butterfield (“Decedent”). On February 15, 2023, Plaintiffs Wayne Butterfield, Sr., Wayne Butterfield, Jr., and Charlotte Duncan (Decedent’s husband and children, together “Plaintiffs”) filed a complaint against various corporations seeking to hold them accountable for Decedent’s death on March 26, 2022, from cancer caused by asbestos exposure brought home on…