GS Holistic, LLC v. King's Mini Mart

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 1] GS Holistic, LLC, No. 2:23-cv-00351-KJM-CKD Plaintiff, ORDER v. King’s Smoke Shop & Vape, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff GS Holistic, LLC’s original complaint named two defendants: “King’s Smoke Shop & Vape” and one Doe defendant. Compl. §{ 6-7, ECF No. 1. Since then, plaintiff's counsel discovered the correct defendants are actually King’s Mini Mart (doing business as King Smoke Shop) and Hameedullah Nooristani. Mot. Am. at 2, ECF No. 12. Plaintiff now requests leave to amend the complaint to correct the defendants’ names. See id. No defendant has yet appeared, no party or non-party has registered any opposition to the motion, and the court has not 23 yet issued a scheduling order under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16. Rule 15 permits a party to amend its complaint with the court’s permission. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(2). “The court should freely…