Hodgson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Eric Hodgson, No. 2:20-cv-00650-KJM-DB Plaintiff, ORDER v. Randle Roper, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 Eric Hodgson was once the director of sales at Vacaya LLC, an event planning company. He claims in this action that Vacaya’s founders lied to him about the company’s finances and 19 falsely promised to reward his services with a valuable equity stake. This court dismissed Hodgson’s previous complaint because it lacked the particularized factual allegations required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b). Hodgson’s renewed allegations again fall short of the mark, as explained below. His federal claims are dismissed, and the court declines to exercise 23 supplemental jurisdiction over his state law claims. Hodgson’s complaint is thus dismissed 24 without leave to amend, as explained in the first section below. Defendants also move for sanctions. Hodgson previously was…