Beauvil

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Clearview Enterprises, LLC, No. 2:22-cv-01119-KJM-JDP Plaintiff, ORDER v. Elizabeth Raquel Beauvil et al., 1S Defendants. 16 Clearview Enterprises, LLC, claims defendants Elizabeth Raquel Beauvil, Global Empire Holdings, Lawrence Albano, and Chelsea Jones defrauded it by selling Clearview fake leads for making case referrals to law firms. Albano and Global now move to amend their answer to add 20 affirmative defenses and add crossclaims against Beauvil and against newly joined defendants. For the reasons stated below, the court grants the motion and sua sponte amends the scheduling 22 order. 23 I. BACKGROUND Clearview Enterprises is a California-based limited liability company that markets 25 referrals to lawyers, chiefly for mass tort litigation. See Compl. § 8, ECF No. 1. As alleged in the 26 operative complaint, in 2021, Clearview began a relationship with Albano and Global to…