Arguedas

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Juan Carlos ARGUEDAS, et al., Case No.: 20-cv-2044-AGS-BGS

Plaintiffs,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART

v. DEFENDANTS’ SUMMARY-

JUDGMENT MOTION (ECF 85)

Jesus Alberto CARSON, et al., Defendants. 8 In this breach-of-contract and fraud case, the defense moves for summary judgment. BACKGROUND1 In 2015, plaintiffs met with defendant Alberto Carson in person to discuss doing business together on medical-evacuation flights. (ECF 88-2, at 2–3.) The plan was for plaintiffs to provide medevac services to patients, while Carson would bill and collect payments from those patients and their insurance companies. (Id.) Everyone agrees that Carson was to remit plaintiffs’ share of the bills collected. (Id. at 8–9.) Over the next few years, plaintiffs flew hundreds of medevac flights. (ECF 85-1, at 6–7; ECF 88-1, at 94–95.) The parties dispute how involved Carson’s wife—defendant Marcella Meraux-Carson—was in this…