James Bettles v. Toyota Motor Corporation

Case 2:21-cv-07560-ODW-AFM Document Filed 05/23/ Page 1 of Page ID #:315

O 2 3 4 5 6 7 United States District Court 8 Central District of California

11 JAMES BETTLES, Case № 2:21-cv-07560-ODW (AFMx)

12 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ v. MOTION TO DISMISS [32]

14 TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION, et 15 al., 16 Defendants. 17 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff James Bettles filed this putative class action against Defendants Toyota 20 Motor Corporation (“TMC”) and Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (“TMS”). (Compl., 21 ECF No. 1.) Defendants now move to dismiss Bettles’s Complaint pursuant to Federal 22 Rule of Civil Procedure (“Rule”) 12(b)(6). (Mot. Dismiss (“Mot.” or “Motion”), ECF 23 No. 32-1; Stip. Joinder, ECF No. 50.) The Motion is fully briefed. (Opp’n, ECF 24 No. 44; Reply, ECF No. 47.) For the following reasons, the Court GRANTS 25 Defendants’ Motion with leave to amend.2

1 The Motion to Dismiss was initially filed by TMS. The Court has since permitted TMC…