Mandela T. Brock v. Amazon Prime

Background

Mandela Brock, representing himself, filed a request concerning his motion to remand, which is a request to return a case from federal court to state court. Brock stated that he had concluded defendants’ removal of the case to federal court was timely and appropriate. He therefore asked the court to treat his motion to remand as moot and address the federal questions he said were presented in his amended complaint.

Brock also disputed defendants’ reliance on diversity of citizenship and challenged a statement that Prime Now LLC was a citizen of Delaware and Washington and not New York. He characterized that statement as impossible and alleged intentional misrepresentations. The opinion does not decide the accuracy of those allegations or resolve the federal questions identified by Brock.

Ruling

The court granted the application. Judge Ona T. Wang denied Brock’s motion to remand as moot. The court ordered defendants to respond to the amended complaint by February 22, 2021, and directed the Clerk to close ECF 9.

Effect

The order left the case in federal court for purposes of the proceedings described in the opinion. It did not decide the merits of Brock’s federal questions or his allegations against defendants. The opinion also states that Brock accepted defendants’ consent to service on behalf of all defendants, but the order itself addresses the motion to remand and the response deadline.