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N.D. Cal.Procedural orderFiled Jan. 21, 2020

Emmons v. First Student, Inc.

Judge
Susan Illston
Docket
3:19-cv-02964
Court
U.S. District Court · Northern District of California
Pages
1
Civil ProcedureMotion to Dismiss
In one sentence

In Emmons v. First Student, Judge Illston ordered Emmons to file two documents before a hearing on First Student’s dismissal motion.

Who this affects

Janay Emmons and First Student, Inc.; the order specifically required Emmons to file two documents before the motion-to-dismiss hearing.

What happened

In Emmons v. First Student, Inc., First Student asked the court to dismiss Janay Emmons’s case. The opinion does not state the grounds for that motion.

Before the hearing, the court ordered Emmons to file a copy of her September 17, 2018 complaint submitted to the Department of Fair Employment and Housing and a letter from her doctor referenced in her opposition.

Judge Susan Illston set the filing deadline as 10:00 a.m. on January 23, 2020. The order did not decide the motion to dismiss.

The detailed version

For law students, journalists, and other readers who want the full reasoning

Case
Emmons v. First Student, Inc. · No. 3:19-cv-02964
Judge
Susan Illston
Date
Jan. 21, 2020

Background

First Student, Inc. filed a motion to dismiss in Janay Emmons’s case. The court reviewed the parties’ submissions concerning that motion. The excerpt does not state the claims or the grounds for dismissal.

Order

In anticipation of the hearing on the motion to dismiss, the court ordered that two documents be filed before 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 23, 2020:

1. A copy of Emmons’s September 17, 2018 complaint submitted to the Department of Fair Employment and Housing. 2. A copy of the letter from Emmons’s doctor described in her opposition to the motion to dismiss. The opinion quotes the opposition as stating that the letter informed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that Emmons was a 36-year-old transgender female.

Disposition

The court issued an order requiring these documents before the hearing. It did not grant or deny the motion to dismiss in this opinion.

The authoritative version

Read the full 1-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.

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