Tidwell

I. BACKGROUND

1 Plaintiff makes the following allegations in the complaint, which the court takes as true for 2 purposes of this motion. Plaintiff’s daughter Tanesha Tidwell (“Decedent”) was a patient at 3 Kaiser Permanente from 2013 to 2022. Compl. ¶ 1. After she died in June 2022, Plaintiff alleges 4 that Kaiser Permanente “failed to obtain Plaintiff authorization in June 2022 prior to the release of 5 Decedent’s body over to Defendant Trident for Decedent to be burned up in July 2022 solely for 6 Defendant Trident to aid Defendant Kaiser Permanente's spoliation and destruction of evidence to camouflage Defendant Kaiser Permanente's personal injuries, negligence/medical malpractices and other causes that directly resulted in the wrongful death of Decedent.” Id. ¶ 2. Plaintiff alleges that, without his “prior knowledge, consent or written approval,” Kaiser Permanente contracted with Trident “to handle, possess, take control and transport Decedent's body (not embalmed) from Defendant Kaiser Permanente to Defendant Trident for Decedent to be gruesomely and barbarically burned up in late July 2022.” Id. ¶ 3. Plaintiff…