Simpson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DARLENE JULIE SIMPSON, Plaintiff, No. C 23-05728 WHA

v.

NINA MARIA ALVES, RICHARD E. ORDER GRANTING MOTION JARRATT, JR., and DOES 1–25, inclusive, TO REMAND 14 Defendants.

16 In this dispute over the Jarratt Family Trust and its property, plaintiff Darlene Julie Simpson moves to remand the action back to Alameda County Superior Court (Dkt. No. 5). According to plaintiff, removal of this action was improper on the merits given that no federal question exists on the face of the complaint, the minimum amount in controversy is not satisfied, and the forum-defendant rule applies. Moreover, according to plaintiff, removal of this action was procedurally improper because removing defendant Nina Maria Alves failed to join all defendants. Defendant Alves, representing herself pro se, counters that plaintiff caused the removal of over a million dollars’ worth of gold, silver, furs, diamonds, and other precious stones and jewels from the Jarratt family…