Nguyen

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division MORGAN NGUYEN, et al., Case No. 22-cv-02814-LB

Plaintiffs,

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

v. DISMISS

DO NGUYEN, et al., Re: ECF No. 80 Defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION The plaintiffs (two corporations and an individual who is their sole shareholder) sued the defendants (an individual and a corporation) in state court for claims (such as fraud and breach of contract) relating to misrepresentations that the defendants allegedly made to induce the plaintiffs’ investments.1 The defendants moved to dismiss the claims under Texas’s (or alternatively California’s) Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) law, arguing that the claims are based on protected activity and the defendants’ statute-of-frauds and litigation-privilege affirmative defenses mean that the plaintiffs are unlikely to prevail.2 The plaintiffs counter that the …