Ponce v. Fontainebleau Resorts, LLC

ORDER

CECILIA M. ALTONAGA, District Judge.

THIS CAUSE came before the Court on the Motion to Remand of Plaintiffs Ricardo Ponce, John Torres, Estela Zayas, and Tereso Armuelles (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”) [D.E. 6], filed June 19, 2009. The Court has carefully considered the parties’ written submissions and the applicable law.

I. BACKGROUND

Defendant, Fontainebleau Resorts, LLC (“Fontainebleau”), employed Plaintiffs, who were each over the age of forty, as servers. After a “new and young” banquet manager was hired in 2008, he and his assistant manager made derogatory and discriminatory…