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Nature of Suit Code: 443
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Accommodations
Cause of Action: 28:1443(1) Rent, Lease &amp; Ejectment

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C. Alex Naegele (SBN 255887)

C. ALEX NAEGELE

A PROFESSIONAL LAW CORPORATION

95 South Market Street, Suite 300

San Jose, California, 95113

Telephone: (408) 995-3224

Facsimile: (408) 890-4645

Email: alex@canlawcorp.com

Attorney for Defendant

SONIA CHIOU

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

LUCY GAO

 Plaintiff,

 v.

SONIA MING-JIU CHIOU aka CATHERINE 

SONIA KIRK,

Defendant.

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Case No. 5:15-cv-03594-NC

STIPULATION TO REMAND CASE;

ORDER REMANDING CASE 

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Plaintiff Lucy Gao (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant Sonia Ming-Jiu Chiou (“Defendant”) 

(collectively “the Parties”) by and through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate and agree as 

follows: 

STIPULATION

1. On July 21, 2015, Plaintiff commenced an action in the Superior Court of 

California in and for the County of Santa Clara titled Lucy Gao vs. Sonia Ming-Jiu Chiou, as 

Case No. 115CV283336 (the “State Court Action”). 

2. On August 5, 2015, Defendant filed a Notice of Removal of the State Court 

Action pursuant to pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1441, 1446, 42 U.S.C. § 3604, and the 

holding of the United States Supreme Court case Grable & Sons Metal Products, Inc. v. Darue 

Engineering & Mfg., 545 U.S. 308 (2005).

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3. On August 10, 2015, the Parties came to an agreement and settled this action (the 

“Settlement”). A true and correct copy of the Settlement entered into between the Parties is 

attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

4. The Settlement provides that a stipulation and order will be entered in the 

Superior Court for the County of Santa Clara County in the remanded State Court Action.

5. Because the Superior Court currently lacks jurisdiction to enter the Settlement 

stipulation and order, the Parties have agreed and stipulate to remand the State Court Action so 

that the Settlement stipulation and order can be entered in the Superior Court. 

6. Pursuant to this Stipulation and Order, each Party shall bear her own attorney’s 

fees and costs with respect to the removal and subsequent remand of the State Court Action.

7. Upon remand, the Parties further stipulate that the Settlement stipulation and 

order be effective nunc pro tunc to August 10, 2015, the date the Settlement stipulation was 

signed by all parties. 

Dated: August 11, 2015 By: /s/ Todd Rothbard 

 Todd Rothbard

 Attorney for Plaintiff 

 LUCY GAO

Dated: August 11, 2015 By: /s/ C. Alex Naegele 

 C. Alex Naegele

 Attorney for Defendant 

 SONIA CHIOU

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ORDER

Good cause appearing, IT IS ORDERED THAT: 

1. This action immediately be remanded to the Santa Clara Superior Court.

2. Each party shall bear her own attorneys’ fees and costs with respect to the 

removal and subsequent remand of the State Court Action. 

Dated: August 11, 2015 

 NATHANAEL M. COUSINS

United States Magistrate Judge

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