Taylor Whitley v. Clare Maguire

Case 2:22-cv-01837-ODW-JEM Document Filed 12/05/ Page 1 of Page ID #:230

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United States District Court Central District of California

11 TAYLOR WHITLEY et al., Case № 2:22-cv-01837-ODW (JEMx)

Plaintiffs,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

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DENYING IN PART MOTION TO

14 CLARE MAGUIRE et al., DISMISS [22][28]

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16 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiffs Taylor Whitley and WTF.Industries, LLC bring this action against 19 Defendants Clare Maguire, Jake Nygard, Antonius Wiriadjaja, and Donglee Han, 20 alleging copyright infringement and eleven other claims arising from Whitley’s ouster 21 from the digital art community that he founded. (First Am. Compl. (“FAC”) ¶¶ 1, 7– 22 12, ECF No. 20.) Defendants now move to dismiss Plaintiffs’ First Amended 23 Complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (“Rule”) 12(b)(6). (Mot. 24 Dismiss FAC (“Motion” or “Mot.”), ECF No. 22.) The Motion is fully briefed. 25 (Opp’n, ECF No. 25; Reply, ECF No. 26.) For the following …