Herman

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 PAUL GARY HERMAN, No. 2:23-cv-02973-DJC-DB 11 Plaintiff, 12 v. ORDER

13 GENERAL MOTORS, LLC

14 Defendant. 15

16 This action was originally removed from Solano County Superior Court on 17 December 20, 2023. Defendant filed a Motion to Dismiss shortly thereafter. That 18 motion was granted, with leave to amend, after Plaintiff failed to file an opposition and 19 the motion was found to be meritorious. Plaintiff filed a First Amended Complaint 20 (“FAC”) on March 6, 2024. (ECF No. 15.) Therein, Plaintiff claims that due to 21 Defendant’s misrepresentations and omissions, he purchased a Chevy Bolt from a 22 dealer in 2021. Plaintiff alleges that Defendant was aware for several years that the 23 Chevy Bolt’s battery could not be fully charged or safely stored indoors as it was a fire 24 hazard but concealed that information from Plaintiff and made affirmative 25 misrepresentations to him. Plaintiff also claims that Defendant initially promised to 26 replace the…