Arballo v. Fresenius USA, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

DOUGLAS P. WOODLOCK, District Judge.

Defendant Northridge Dialysis Center (“Northridge”), a California dialysis clinic, moves to dismiss claims against it by a California plaintiff, Josephine Arballo. Arballo moves to remand the entire case to California state court, and the Fresenius defendants (“FMCNA”) seek to keep the case as part of this multi-district litigation (“MDL”), either through dismissal of the claims against Northridge or through severing and remanding the Northridge claims while maintaining the rest of the action here.

I. BACKGROUND

Arballo is the surviving…