Stebbins

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 DAVID A. STEBBINS, Case No. 21-cv-04184-JSW

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING EMERGENCY

v. MOTION TO STRIKE

KARL POLANO, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 142 Defendants.

12 Plaintiff has filed a motion styled as an emergency motion to strike the motion to intervene filed by Alphabet Inc. and YouTube LLC. (Dkt. No. 138.) Plaintiff’s motion is nothing more than an attempted challenge to the legal sufficiency of motion to intervene. The Court DENIES Plaintiff’s motion. Motions to strike are governed by Rule 12(f), which states that “[t]he court may strike from a pleading an insufficient defense or any redundant, immaterial, impertinent, or scandalous matter.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(f) (emphasis added). Rule 7(a) defines a pleading as “(1) a complaint; (2) an answer to a complaint; (3) an answer to a counterclaim designated as a counterclaim; (4) an answer to a crossclaim; (5) a third-party complaint; (6) an answer to a third-party complaint;…