Brignac
Brignac v. Yelp Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 JARON LAMAR BRIGNAC, Case No. 19-cv-01188-EMC
8 Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S
9 v. MOTION TO DISMISS
10 YELP INC., Docket No. 64 11 Defendant.
12 13 14 I. INTRODUCTION 15 Pro se Plaintiff Jaron Brignac brings this suit against Defendant Yelp, Inc. (“Yelp”) 16 alleging that Yelp discriminated against him on the basis of race in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981. 17 Pending before the Court is Yelp’s Motion to Dismiss Mr. Brignac’s Second Amended Complaint 18 (“Mot.”), Docket No. 64, which the Court previously determined it would hear—in part—as a 19 motion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56. Principally, the question currently before the 20 Court is whether Mr. Brignac brings this suit on behalf of a corporation or whether he brings it on 21 behalf of a sole proprietorship. If the former, the corporation must comply with Local Civil Rule 22 3-9(b), which requires that a corporation appearing before the…