AG
AG v. Secretary of State
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 A.G., et al., Case No. 24-cv-00252-JD
Plaintiffs,
ORDER RE DISMISSAL
v.
SECRETARY OF U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, et al., 11 Defendants.
12 In this immigration case, plaintiffs’ complaint, Dkt. No. 1, is dismissed pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a), with leave to amend. Defendants’ motion to dismiss, Dkt. No. 27, is terminated as moot. A complaint is properly dismissed under Rule 8 when “one cannot determine from the complaint who is being sued, for what relief, and on what theory, with enough detail to guide discovery.” McHenry v. Renne, 84 F.3d 1172, 1178 (9th Cir. 1996). That is the situation here. For plaintiff A.G., the complaint says that she was entitled to be given the same immigration status as her parents on the same date. See, e.g., Dkt. No. 1 ¶¶ 47, 55; Dkt. No. 30 at 2-3 (“Plaintiffs allege that Defendants . . . have a duty to approve a green card application for a derivative applicant under § 1153(d) when the principal…