Burmeister

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CHAD BURMEISTER, Case No. 22-cv-00088-HSG

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

STRIKE

v. Re: Dkt. No. 18 ALAN SALDICH, et al., Defendants.

12 Before the Court is Defendants’ motion to strike, or in the alternative, to dismiss. See Dkt. No. 18 (“Mot.”). The Court previously found this matter appropriate for disposition without oral argument and took the motion under submission. See Dkt. No. 29; Civil L.R. 7-1(b). The Court GRANTS the motion to strike for the reasons below. I. BACKGROUND This defamation case is about a LinkedIn post in which Defendant Alan Saldich wrote that Plaintiff Chad Burmeister had “participated in the seditious takeover” of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. See Dkt. No. 1 (“Compl.”). Plaintiff alleges that on January 7, 2021, Saldich, acting in his capacity as Chief Marketing Officer of Corelight, published the following: Normally I’d stay away from political commentary on LinkedIn, but…