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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Bridgette Davis, No. 2:23-cev-01241-KJM-DB Plaintiffs, ORDER v. Shutterstock, Inc., 1S Defendant. 16 Plaintiff Bridgette Davis brings this putative class action against defendant Shutterstock, 18 Inc., for violating California’s consumer protection laws. Shutterstock moves to dismiss the complaint, or in the alternative, to strike the class allegations. The court takes the matter under 20 submission without holding a hearing and grants the motion. I. BACKGROUND California enacted its Automatic Renewal Law (ARL) in 2010 “to end the practice of ongoing charging of consumer credit or debit cards or third party payment accounts without the consumers’ explicit consent for ongoing shipments of a product or ongoing deliveries of service.” Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17600. Among other prohibitions, the statute makes it “unlawful for 26 any business that makes an automatic…