Howard v. CFI Industries Inc et al

Filing 32

RULING Adopting 31 Report and Recommendation of the U.S. Magistrate Judge. Plaintiff's 30 Motion for Leave to File First Supplemental and Amended Complaint for Damages is GRANTED. Subsequent to the entry of Plaintiff's First Supplemen tal and Amended Complaint for Damages into the record, diversity jurisdiction in this action will be destroyed, and the Court REMANDS this action to the 23rd Judicial District Court for Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Signed by Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick on 10/7/2021. (NLT)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA

HOWARD

CIVIL ACTION

VERSUS
20-26-SDD-RLB

CFI INDUSTRIES, INC. ET AL.

RULING
The Court has carefully considered the Motion^ filed by Plaintiff, the record, the law
applicable to this action, and the Report and Recommendations2 of United States
Magistrate Judge Richard L. Bourgeois, Jr., dated September 13, 2021, to which no
objection was filed.
The Court hereby approves the Report and Recommendations of the Magistrate
Judge and adopts it as the Court's opinion herein.

ACCORDINGLY, the Plaintiffs Motion for Leave to Fi!e First Supplemental and
Amended Complaint for Damages is hereby GRANTED.
IT HEREBY ORDERED that the Clerk's Office shall file Plaintiffs First
Supplemental and Amended Complaint for Damages into the record.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, subsequent to the entry of Piaintiffs First
Supplemental and Amended Complaint for Damages into the record, diversity jurisdiction

1 Rec. Doc. 30.
2Rec. Doc. 31.

in this action will be destroyed, and the Court hereby REMANDS this action to the 23rd
Judicial District Court for the Parish ofAscension, State of Louisiana.
Signed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana the _^_ __ day of October, 2021.

CHIEF JUDG^HELLY D. DICK
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA