Federal District Court Declines Supplemental Jurisdiction In An Employment-Related Dispute Where The CFAA Was The Sole Basis For Federal Jurisdiction

In Contemporary Services Corp. v. Hartman, 2008 WL 3049891 (C.D. Cal.), the United States District Court for the Central District of California recently declined supplemental jurisdiction over state law claims removed to the court where federal jurisdiction was based solely on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030. Finding that state issues substantially predominated, the court noted that the “[e]lements and facts that Plaintiffs must prove to establish their CFAA claim are different from what they must prove to establish their other claims.”   

 The court retained jurisdiction over the CFAA claim and remanded all of the state law claims.

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