Contemporary Services Corp. v. Universal City Studios, Inc.

MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER OF PARTIAL REMAND

REA, District Judge.

The issue presented in this ease is whether to remand some or all of plaintiffs’ eleven claims to the state court from which defendants removed them. The plaintiff brought ten of these claims under state law and one under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961, 1964. The Court finds that it must retain jurisdiction over the RICO claim, it must remand some of the state law claims because they are asserted against “pendent parties,” and it may in its discretion remand the…