Gazaway

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CAMERON GAZAWAY and ROBERT Case No. 23-cv-04781-PCP

WILSON,

8 Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS TO DISMISS WITH LEAVE TO AMEND v. Re: Dkt. Nos. 48,

BILL NELSON, ADMINISTRATOR,

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, et al., 12 Defendants. 13 Plaintiffs Cameron Gazaway and Robert Wilson bring this lawsuit against American Paragon Protective Services, LLC (APPS); Chenega Global Protection, LLC; and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).1 APPS and NASA move to dismiss the complaint under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6).2 For the reasons that follow, the Court grants APPS’s and NASA’s motions to dismiss with leave to amend. BACKGROUND Plaintiffs allege that after working for 28 years as battalion chiefs, they were unlawfully terminated by defendants (who were allegedly their joint employers) in September 2022 for not having associate degrees in…