McGill

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ERICA MCGILL, Case No. 24-cv-01084-JST

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

DENYING IN PART MOTION TO

v. DISMISS

FORD MOTOR COMPANY, et al., Re: ECF No. 12 Defendants.

12 Before the Court is Defendant HERC Rentals, Inc.’s (“HERC”) motion to dismiss Plaintiff Erica McGill’s complaint. ECF No. 12. The Court will grant the motion in part and deny it in part. I. BACKGROUND1 Plaintiff is an employee of Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma County, California. ECF No. 1-2 ¶ 8. As part of her duties, she operates an assigned vehicle “to patrol and/or drive around” the raceway. Id. Plaintiff was assigned to a Ford F-150 vehicle (“the subject vehicle”) that Sonoma Raceway rented from Defendant HERC Rentals, Inc., a Florida-based corporation. Id. ¶¶ 4, 7. At the raceway on June 12, 2023, McGill placed the subject vehicle in park, exited the vehicle, and walked behind it. Id. ¶ 9. The subject vehicle then moved in…