Free Order on Motion to Dismiss - District Court of California - California

Case 3:08-cv-00033-L-AJB

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 JOSUE SOTO Individually , on Behalf of ) All Others Similarly Situated, and on ) 11 Behalf of the General Public , ) ) Plaintiff, 12 ) ) 13 v. ) ) 14 DIAKON LOGISTICS (DELAWARE), ) INC., ) 15 ) Defendant, 16 _________________________________ ) ) ) 17 AND RELATED COUNTERCLAIM ) AND THIRD-PARTY COMPLAINT. ) 18 19 Civil No. 08cv33-L(AJB) ORDER DENYING AS MOOT MOTION TO DISMISS COUNTERCLAIM AND THIRDPARTY COMPLAINT

Currently pending before the court is Cross-Defendant Josue Soto's ("Soto") motion to

20 dismiss counterclaim and Third-Party Defendant Saybe's LLC's ("Saybe's") motion to dismiss 21 third-party complaint (both doc. no. 20). Subsequently, Counterclaimant and Third-Party 22 Plaintiff Diakon Logistics (Delaware), Inc. ("Diakon") filed an amended counterclaim and an 23 amended third-party complaint. An amended complaint supersedes a prior complaint as a 24 pleading. Forsyth v. Humana, Inc., 114 F.3d 1467, 1474 (9th Cir. 1997); Hal Roach Studios, 25 Inc. v. Richard Feiner & Co., 896 F.2d 1542, 1546 (9th Cir. 1990). A district court may treat as 26 moot a pending motion to dismiss a superseded pleading. Accordingly, Soto's motion to dismiss 27 the counterclaim and Saybe's motion to dismiss the third-party complaint (both doc no. 20) are 28 / / / / /
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Case 3:08-cv-00033-L-AJB

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1 hereby DENIED AS MOOT. This order is WITHOUT PREJUDICE to filing motions to 2 dismiss the amended counterclaim or the amended third-party complaint. 3 4 5 DATED: June 9, 2008 6 7 COPY TO: 8 HON. ANTHONY J. BATTAGLIA 9 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 10 ALL PARTIES/COUNSEL 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
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IT IS SO ORDERED.

M. James Lorenz United States District Court Judge