Canilao

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 MONICA CANILAO, et al., Case No. 20-cv-08030-EMC

Plaintiffs,

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S

v. MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE

PLEADINGS

CITY COMMERCIAL INVESTMENTS, LLC, Docket No. 51 11 Defendant. 12 13 Plaintiffs are six artists who painted murals on the exterior walls of the Stud Bar, San Francisco’s oldest continuously operating queer bar until it shut down in May 2020. Plaintiffs bring this action against Defendant City Commercial Investments, LLC (“CCI”), the owner of the building in which Stud operated, to challenge CCI’s alleged whitewashing and intentional destruction of Plaintiffs’ murals without notice in June 2020. Plaintiffs raise claims under the federal Visual Artists Rights Act, California Arts Preservation Act and for negligence. Now pending is CCI’s motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’ claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and for judgment on the pleadings. Docket No. 51. For the following reasons, the…