Strasser v. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER

KELLEHER, Senior District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

This Court has under submission a motion by plaintiff Paula Strasser to remand this action to the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles. Plaintiff filed her action in state court on June 3, 1981 against KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (“KLM”), her former employer, three individual managers of KLM — Pierre Doley, William Ouwehand, and Norene Wilson, and fictitious defendants “Does 1 through 20, inclusive.” The Does, despite extensive procedural history in state court, have never been identified by…