Rosado

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Gina Rosado, No. 2:22-cv-02302-KJM-CKD Plaintiff, ORDER v. Leprino Foods Company, 1S Defendant. 16 The court granted defendant Leprino Food Company’s motion for summary judgment in a 18 previous order and entered judgment in Leprino’s favor. Order, ECF No. 22; Judgment, ECF No. 23. Leprino then submitted a bill of costs. ECF No. 24. Plaintiff Gina Rosado objects to the 20 bill of costs. ECF No. 25. She argues California law applies to this question, and she contends California law does not permit a court to tax a defendant’s costs in a case like this one unless the 22 plaintiffs claims were “unreasonable, frivolous, meritless or vexatious.” /d. at 3 (emphasis 23 omitted). She argues her claims do not fit that description, but rather were reasonable, albeit unsuccessful in the end. See id. at 3-4. In the alternative, she asks the court to exercise its 25 discretion not to tax costs…