Morgan

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 CARL N. MORGAN, Case No. 1:25-cv-01188-KES-HBK 12 Plaintiff, ORDER MOOTING MOTION

13 v. (Doc. No. 5) 14 LEXISNEXIS RISK SOLUTIONS, INC., 15 Defendant. 16 17 On September 19, 2025, Defendant filed a motion to dismiss pro se Plaintiff’s complaint. 18 (Doc. No. 5). In response, Plaintiff filed a first amended complaint on October 2, 2025. (Doc. 19 No. 8). The filing by Plaintiff of a first amended complaint moots Defendant’s September 19, 20 2025 motion to dismiss. See CDK Global LLC v. Brnovich, 16 F.4th 1266 (9th Cir. 2021) (“an 21 amended complaint supersedes the original complaint” thereby becoming the “operative 22 pleading.”); Barnes v. Dist. of Columbia, 42 F. Supp. 3d 111, 117 (D.D.C. 2014) (“When a 23 plaintiff files an amended complaint as of right ... the amended complaint becomes the operative 24 pleading ... and any pending motion to dismiss becomes moot.” (cleaned up)). 25 On October 16, 2025, in response to Plaintiff’s first…