Lanfri

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 KEVIN LANFRI, Case No. 24-cv-04454-PCP

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

v. DISMISS

GOODWILL OF SILICON VALLEY, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 16 Defendants.

12 In this lawsuit, plaintiff Kevin Lanfri, who does business as Rex Cleaners, accuses Goodwill of Silicon Valley of having operated a drycleaning business from 1956 to 1975 that released tetrachloroethene (“PCE”) and trichloroethylene (“TCE”) and thereby caused or contributed to the contamination at Lanfri’s Rex Cleaners property and other neighboring properties—contamination that Lanfri himself is now remediating. Goodwill moves to dismiss Lanfri’s complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). Dkt. No. 20. Goodwill’s motion is joined by several other defendants Lanfri accuses of “hold[ing], or [having] previously held, an ownership interest” in Goodwill’s property. Dkt No. 1, at 5. For the…