Friend
Friend v. Google LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 DONALD FRIEND, Case No. 24-cv-03571-SVK
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO
v. ALTER OR AMEND JUDGMENT
GOOGLE LLC, Re: Dkt. No. 41 Defendant.
Self-represented Plaintiff Donald Friend commenced this action to recover from Defendant Google LLC (“Google”) for allegedly permitting fraudulent business listings to persist on its platform, thereby stifling a contractual arrangement between Plaintiff and non-party Dumpsters Direct LLC (“DD”). See Third Amended Complaint (the “TAC”) at Dkt. 24-1. The Court dismissed the TAC without leave to amend and entered judgment because Plaintiff lacked prudential standing and Article III standing, and he could not correct those deficiencies in an amended pleading without fundamentally changing his allegations. See Dkts. 39 (the “Prior Order”), 40. Plaintiff now moves to alter or amend judgment on the basis that the Court erred in dismissing his claims without leave…