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Parties Involved:
Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California
Defendant
Gary Giannini
Plaintiff

Document Text:

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ORDER

UNITED 

STATES 

DISTRICT 

COURT

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

Northern District of California

San Francisco Division

GARY GIANNINI,

Plaintiff,

v.

CARPENTERS PENSION TRUST FUND

FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA,

Defendant.

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No. C 14-05227 LB

ORDER (1) TO SHOW CAUSE RE:

SUBJECT-MATTER JURISDICTION

AND (2) CONTINUING THE

HEARING ON DEFENDANT’S

MOTION TO DISMISS

Plaintiff Gary Giannini, who is proceeding pro se, sued Defendant Carpenters Pension Trust

Fund for Northern California in state court. He alleges that Defendant breached a contract entitling

him to pension benefits. Defendant removed the action to federal court, asserting that Plaintiff’s

claim is preempted under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”). In the notice

of removal, Defendant says that Plaintiff seeks “benefits from a pension plan governed by” ERISA

and that his claim necessarily involves questions arising under that statute. Defendant, however,

offers no argument or evidence to support this assertion. Defendant neither filed a declaration

attaching the pension plan nor explained why the pension plan is one that is covered by ERISA. As

it stands now, the record does not establish that the pension plan at issue in this action is one that is

covered by ERISA. 

The court thus orders Defendant to show cause why this action should not be remanded for lack

of subject-matter jurisdiction. Defendant shall do so in writing no later than January 30, 2015. In

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UNITED 

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For the Northern District of California

light of this jurisdictional problem, the court continues the hearing on Defendant’s pending motion

to dismiss from January 29, 2015 to February 12, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. in Courtroom C, 15th Floor,

United States District Court, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, California 94102.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 23, 2015 _______________________________

LAUREL BEELER

United States Magistrate Judge

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