Richard Paul Merrell v. Tapestry, Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
RICHARD PAUL MERRELL, Case No. 23-cv-06671-RFL
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v. TRANSFER
TAPESTRY, INC., Re: Dkt. No. 63 Defendant.
In December 2023, Vivian Salazar, a resident of Contra Costa County, California, filed a class action lawsuit against Tapestry, Inc., a Maryland corporation with its headquarters in Maryland. Salazar alleged that Tapestry’s website violated the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12101, et seq., and California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, Cal. Civ. Code § 51, et seq. In her original and first amended complaint, Salazar alleged that Tapestry’s website contained improperly coded form elements, which (a) prohibited her and members of the putative class from completing purchases on the website and (b) denied them the goods and services of Tapestry’s brick-and-mortar retail stores. (Dkt. No. 1 at 7–8; Dkt. No. 18 at 7–8.) On June 24, 2025, the Court granted Salazar’s motion for leave to file a second amended complaint to substitute Richard Paul Merrell, a resident of Riverside County, California, as the named plaintiff. …