Hall-Johnson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CARNEICE KATHRINE HALL- Case No. 23-cv-05378-JST

JOHNSON,

8 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART MOTION TO v. STRIKE 10 CITIBANK, N.A, Re: ECF No. 80 11 Defendant. 12 Before the Court is Plaintiff Carneice Hall-Johnson’s motion to strike Defendant Citibank, N.A.’s answer and affirmative defenses. ECF No. 80. The Court will grant the motion in part and deny it in part. I. BACKGROUND Plaintiff alleges that on June 12, 2023, she deposited a cashier’s check in the amount of $7,500.00 into her Citibank checking account. ECF No. 1-1 ¶ 1. Later that day, she was informed that her account was blocked because she had deposited a fraudulent check. Id. ¶¶ 2–3. Plaintiff’s account was then deactivated on June 16, 2023. Id. ¶¶ 3–8. A Citibank employee allegedly told Plaintiff that her “race” and “the amount of [her] check” “set off the fraud alert.” Id. ¶ 9. On July 28, 2023, Plaintiff…