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Parties Involved:
Exide Technologies
Defendant
George S. Louie
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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GEORGE S. LOUIE,

NO. CIV. S-06-1591 FCD KJM

Plaintiff,

v. ORDER

EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES,

Defendant.

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The court has reviewed defendant’s notice of removal to the

United States District Court for the Eastern District of

California under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1441(a) and 1446 based on federal

question jurisdiction. The court finds that the underlying

complaint, alleging causes of action for (1) violation of the

California Disabled Persons Act (California Civil Code § 54 et

seq.), (2) violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act (California

Civil Code § 51 et seq.), (3) denial of full and equal access to

a person with physical disabilities in a public facilities

(California Health & Safety Code §§ 19955 et seq.), and (4)

negligence, does not present a federal question and is therefore

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1 Defendants reliance on Pickern v. Best Western Timber

Cove Lodge Marina Resort, 194 F. Supp. 2d 1128 (E.D. Cal. 2002),

is misplaced. In Pickern, the court held that it did not have

federal question jurisdiction over similar state law claims for

damages. Id. While the court hypothesized, without citation,

that a federal court may have original jurisdiction over a state

claim for injunctive relief, the court did not reach the issue. 

Id. at 1132 n.5. 

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improperly before this court.1 Accordingly, the court REMANDS

this action back to the Superior Court of California, County of

Sacramento. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: July 19, 2006

/s/ Frank C. Damrell Jr. 

FRANK C. DAMRELL, Jr.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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