Dangaard

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DAWN DANGAARD, KELLY GILBERT, and JENNIFER ALLBAUGH, No. C 22-01101 WHA Plaintiffs,

v.

ORDER RE MOTIONS TO DISMISS

INSTAGRAM, LLC, FACEBOOK

OPERATIONS, LLC, FENIX INTERNET,

LLC, FENIX INTERNATIONAL, LTD.,

META PLATFORMS, INC., LEONID RADVINSKY, and JOHN DOES 1–10. 16 Defendants.

18 Plaintiffs will be allowed to re-plead their complaint to meet the issues raised on the motions to dismiss. Plaintiffs must plead their best case. First, as revealed at the hearing, plaintiffs have the benefit of information outside the pleadings that may support their claims. So plaintiffs could have pled more, but they chose not to. For example, plaintiffs state that both a BBC news article and tips from confidential sources support the allegations in the complaint. Plaintiffs refer to the BBC article in the complaint, but they do not include the actual article in the pleading. As to the confidential sources, plaintiffs make no…