Faizi

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 AHMAD MUKHTAR FAIZI, an individual Case No. 22-cv-04224-VKD and derivatively on behalf of FALAFEL FLAME, INC.,

ORDER STRIKING CERTAIN

Plaintiff, DEFENDANTS’ ANSWER AND

ENTERING DEFAULT

v.

BAKTASH TEMORI, et al., Defendants. 13 I. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Ahmad Mukhtar Faizi filed a “Verified Shareholder Derivative Complaint for Money Damages and Injunctive Relief,” seeking relief for himself and on behalf of nominal defendant Falafel Flame, Inc. (“Falafel Flame”), against two of Falafel Flame’s directors, Baktash Temori and Masoud Rustakhis, as well as a number of entities, including allegedly unauthorized Falafel Flame restaurants. See Dkt. No. 1. Most of the parties’ litigation efforts have focused on four allegedly unapproved Falafel Flame establishments in Hayward, Sunnyvale, San Jose, and Upland, California (“Unapproved Falafel Defendants”). See id. ¶ 15; see also Dkt. No. 35 at 14. Noting that he did not know…