Wawona Packing Co., LLC v. Fahoum ( 2023 )

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 WAWONA PACKING CO., LLC, a Case No. 1:23-cv-00264-BAM California limited liability company, dba 12 PRIMA WAWONA, ORDER REGARDING NOTICE OF DISMISSAL OF ALIAS NAMES NADIA 13 Plaintiff, HUZAM FAHOUM, NADIA HUZAMA AND NADIA HULTIN 14 v. (Doc. 8) 15 RICHARD FAHOUM, et al., ORDER DIRECTING PLAINTIFF TO 16 Defendants. FILE AMENDED COMPLAINT WITHIN FOURTEEN (14) DAYS 17 18 19 On February 17, 2023, Plaintiff Wawona Packing Co., LLC dba Prima Wawona initiated 20 this action for alleged violations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act against 21 Defendants Richard Fahoum, aka Rashid Fahoum, aka Rasheed Fahoum, doing business as All 22 American Distributing Co., and Nadia Fahoum, aka Nadia Huzama aka Nadia Hultin. (Doc. 1.) 23 Plaintiff filed a First Amended Complaint on March 28, 2023, which named the following 24 defendants: (1) Richard Fahoum, aka Rashid Fahoum, aka Rasheed Fahoum, doing business as 25 All American Distributing Co.; (2) Luxury Addicted, LLC; and (3) Nadia Fahoum, aka Nadia 26 Huzama Fahoum. (Doc. 5 at ¶¶ 5-7.) Defendants have not appeared or otherwise responded to 27 the operative complaint. 28 On April 3, 2023, Plaintiff filed a notice of voluntary dismissal pursuant to Federal Rule 1 of Civil Procedure 41(a), dismissing its complaint and first amended complaint against defendant 2 alias names Nadia Huzama Fahoum, Nadia Huzama, and Nadia Hultin, only, but not Defendant 3 Nadia Fahoum. (Doc. 8.) The Court construes the notice of voluntary dismissal as a request to 4 amend the complaint to correct the name of Defendant Nadia Fahoum pursuant to Federal Rule of 5 Civil Procedure 15(a). 6 Rule 15(a) provides that a court “should freely give leave [to amend] when justice so 7 requires.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(2). The intent of the rule is to “facilitate decision on the merits, 8 rather than on the pleadings or technicalities.” Chudacoff v. Univ. Med. Center of S. Nev., 649 9 F.3d 1143, 1152 (9th Cir. 2011). Consequently, the “policy of favoring amendments to pleadings 10 should be applied with ‘extreme liberality.’” United States v. Webb, 655 F.2d 977, 979 (9th Cir. 11 1981). The Court will therefore grant the request to correct the pleading. Accordingly, IT IS 12 HEREBY ORDERED as follows: 13 1. Plaintiff’s request for leave to amend is GRANTED; 14 2. Within fourteen (14) days of the date of this Order, Plaintiff shall file a Second 15 Amended Complaint, correcting the name of Defendant Nadia Fahoum and omitting the alias 16 names of Nadia Huzama Fahoum, Nadia Huzama, and Nadia Hultin for this defendant. 17 IT IS SO ORDERED. 18 19 Dated: April 4, 2023 /s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe _ UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28