Innerline Engineering, Inc. v. Operating Engineers Health and Welfare Trust Fund for Northern California

1 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 3 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 4 5 INNERLINE ENGINEERING, INC., Case No. 22-cv-03663-JSC

6 Plaintiff,

ORDER ON MOTION TO DISMISS

v. 7 Re: Dkt. No. 35 8 OPERATING ENGINEERS HEALTH

AND WELFARE TRUST FUND FOR

9 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA; DAN

REDING AND JAMES E. MURRAY,

10 TRUSTEES, et al., Defendants. 11 12 13 Innerline Engineering, Inc, (“Innerline”) brings this lawsuit against Defendants—a series 14 of trust funds and their trustees (collectively, the “Trust Funds”)—for relief from a prior judgment 15 in equity, unjust enrichment, and conversion. The Trust Funds move to dismiss Innerline’s 16 claims. (Dkt. No. 35.)1 After carefully considered the parties’ briefing and having had the benefit 17 of oral argument on March 23, 2023, the Court DENIES the Trust Funds’ motion to dismiss. 18 Innerline has standing to challenge the underlying judgment via an independent action in equity 19 and this Court has jurisdiction to review that action. Defendants’ argument that Innerline fails to 20 state a claim is unpersuasive. 21 …