Delexstine Kendricks v. Collect Access, LLC

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2 3 4 5 6 7 United States District Court 8 Central District of California 9

11 DELEXSTINE KENDRICKS, Case № 5:19-cv-01134-ODW (SHKx)

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

v.

DISMISS [49] AND DISMISSING

14 COLLECT ACCESS, LLC; ZEE LAW COMPLAINT SUA SPONTE

GROUP, P.C.,

15 Defendants. 16 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Delexstine Kendricks filed this action against Defendants Collect 19 Access, LLC (“Collect”) and Zee Law Group, P.C. (“ZLG”) for allegedly violating 20 (1) the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, et seq. (“FDCPA”), and 21 (2) the Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, California Civil Code 22 sections 1788, et seq. (“RFDCPA”). (Compl., ECF No. 1.) Defendants move to dismiss the Complaint under Federal Rule of Civil 24 Procedure (“Rule”) 12(b)(6), and they move to strike Kendricks’s state law claim 25 pursuant to California’s anti-SLAPP statute, California Code of Civil Procedure 26 section 425.16. (Mot. to Dismiss & Anti-SLAPP Mot. (“Motion” or “Mot.”), ECF 27 No. 49.) Kendricks opposes the Motion. …