Kuhn
Kuhn v. L'Oreal USA S/D, Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 LINDA KUHN, Case No. 19-cv-04021-HSG
8 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
DISMISS
9 v. Re: Dkt. No. 48 10 L’OREAL USA S/D, INC., et al., 11 Defendants.
12 Pending before the Court is Defendants’ motion to dismiss (Dkt. No. 48 (“Mot.”)) 13 Plaintiff’s Second Amended Complaint (the “SAC,” Dkt. No. 32), for which briefing is complete. 14 Dkt. Nos. 55 (“Opp.”), 57 (“Reply”). For the reasons articulated below, the Court GRANTS 15 Defendants’ motion to dismiss the First Cause of Action (Strict Products Liability) with leave to 16 amend. Plaintiff is required to differentiate which Defendant is the subject of Plaintiff’s various 17 allegations.1 18 I. BACKGROUND 19 This is a products liability case in which Plaintiff Linda Kuhn (“Plaintiff”) seeks to recover 20 personal injury damages from Defendants based on an alleged explosion of a container of dry 21 shampoo near Plaintiff’s foot. 22 On May 5, 2017, Plaintiff’s daughter purchased a container of Matrix…