Washington v. Lowe's HIW Inc.

ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS TO DISMISS, DENYING MOTION TO FILE SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT, AND DENYING AS MOOT MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME

Now before the Court are three motions to dismiss pro se Plaintiff Lisa Washington’s First Amended Complaint (“FAC”): one filed by a group of eight individual defendants (dkt. 20), one filed by individual defendant Robert Niblock (dkt. 26), and one filed by individual defendant Rena Love Galimba (dkt. 27). Because the FAC fails to state a plausible claim for relief on any of its alleged causes of action, the Court GRANTS all three motions to dismiss the FAC. Certain circumstances in this case, as explained below, also warrant DENYING LEAVE TO AMEND, which entails DENYING Plaintiffs pending motion to file a Second Amended Complaint (see dkt. 19 & 25) and DENYING AS MOOT Plaintiffs pending motion for an extension of time to serve the summons and Second Amended Complaint (dkt. 29).

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiff is a former employee of a Lowe’s retail store in Fremont, California, where she worked from December 2011 until she was involuntarily terminated in May 2014. FAC ¶ 12. Plaintiff alleges that, during her employment with Lowe’s, she was told by former…