Gilbert v. Rashid

Summary

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of California ordered Plaintiff Darren Gilbert to show cause why the court should exercise supplemental jurisdiction over his California Unruh Act and California Health and Safety Code accessibility claims. The order, issued in connection with Plaintiff’s motion for default judgment, required declarations addressing whether Plaintiff and counsel qualified as high-frequency litigants and warned that failure to respond would be treated as non-opposition to declining supplemental jurisdiction.

Holdings

1. The court ordered plaintiff to show cause, within fourteen days, why the undersigned should recommend that the district court exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the Unruh Act and California Health and Safety Code claims.

Questions Presented

1. Whether plaintiff should be required to show cause why the court should exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the California Unruh Act claim.
2. Whether plaintiff should be required to show cause why the court should exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the California Health and Safety Code claims in light of California's additional filing and heightened pleading requirements for construction-related accessibility claims.

Disposition

other