Bellone v. Roaring Camp, Inc.

• Court: District Court, N.D. California
• Decided: September 10, 2019
• Docket: 5:19-cv-00307
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 8 CHUCK BELLONE, Case No.19-cv-00307-VKD

9 Plaintiff, ORDER RE DEFENDANTS’ MOTION 10 v. TO DISMISS

11 GADABOUT TOURS, INC., et al., Re: Dkt. No. 25 Defendants. 12

13 Following the stipulated dismissal of defendant Roaring Camp, Inc. pursuant to Federal 14 Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1), plaintiff Chuck Bellone served the first amended complaint and 15 summons on defendants Gadabout Tours, Inc., Lois Anderson, and Mark Anderson (collectively, 16 “the Gadabout defendants”). Dkt. Nos. 19, 20, 21, 22. The Gadabout defendants moved to 17 dismiss the first amended complaint on September 4, 2019. Dkt. No. 25. On September 9, 2019, 18 plaintiff Chuck Bellone filed a second amended complaint as a matter of course pursuant to Rule 19 15(a)(1)(B). Dkt. No. 29. 20 A plaintiff may amend its pleading once as a matter of course within 21 days of service of 21 a motion under Rule 12(b). Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a).1 An amended pleading generally supersedes an 22 original pleading. Hal Roach Studios, Inc. v. Richard Feiner and Co., Inc., 896 F.3d 1542, 1546 23 (9th Cir. 1989). Because the Gadabout defendants were not named as defendants until the first 24 amended complaint, and they responded to that pleading by filing a motion to dismiss pursuant to 25 Rule 12(b)(6), Mr. Bellone’s second amended complaint appears to have been filed as a matter of 26 right within the time to amend permitted under Rule 15(a)(1)(B). See Boyd v. Santa Cruz Cty., 27 1 No. 15-cv-00405-BLF, 2015 WL 3465837, at *4 (N.D. Cal. June 1, 2015) (citing Williams v. Bd. 2 of Regents of Univ. Sys. of Ga., 477 F.3d 1282, 1291 (11th Cir. 2007)). 3 Accordingly, the Court denies defendants’ motion to dismiss (Dkt. No. 25) as moot, and 4 || VACATES the hearing scheduled for October 15, 2019. Defendants’ deadline to respond to the 5 second amended complaint is September 24, 2019. Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(3). 6 IT IS SO ORDERED. 7 Dated: September 10, 2019 8 . 28 □ 9 VIRGINIA K. DEMARCHI 10 United States Magistrate Judge 11 12

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