J.G.

I. BACKGROUND

22 This is a civil action brought by Plaintiff J.G. against Defendants San Diego Unified 23 District and members of its staff, seeking various forms of relief based on Plaintiff’s time 24 at Torrey Pines Elementary School. (Doc. No. 1-2.) Plaintiff filed his Complaint in the San 25 Diego Superior Court. (Id.) The Complaint lists eight causes of action, two of which 26 specifically reference federal statutes. (Id. at 1, 20–25.) Defendants removed the action 27 based on federal question jurisdiction. (Doc. No. 1.) 28 Before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion to remand for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and Defendant’s motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim. The motions are fully briefed. In his moving papers, Plaintiff requests leave to dismiss the federal claims from his Complaint. As more fully set forth below, the Court grants Plaintiff leave to amend, declines to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the remaining state claims, remands the action to state court, and denies as moot all pending motions. II. DISCUSSION To begin, the Court finds that at the time of removal, it had original jurisdiction over…