Rice

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 10 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 1] 12 Tawanna Rice, et al., No. 2:21-cv-01519-DAD-KJN 13 Plaintiffs, ORDER 14 v. 15 Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a Delaware 16 corporation, 17 Defendant. 18 19 Plaintiffs Tawanna and Kelly Rice bring this putative class action claiming defendant 20 | Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the manufacturer and distributor of Huggies Snug and Dry diapers, 21 | violated state consumer protection laws. Defendant moves to dismiss. For the reasons below, the 22 | motion is denied as to plaintiffs’ consumer fraud claims and granted in part as to plaintiffs’ 23 | claims for equitable relief, with leave to amend. The court also strikes all references in the 24 | operative complaint to marketing outside of that appearing on defendant’s Amazon.com 25 | storefront, but grants plaintiffs leave to amend.!

' The court notes this case has been randomly reassigned to District Judge Dale A. Drozd. Because the undersigned heard the motion addressed by…