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Nature of Suit Code: 220
Nature of Suit: Foreclosure
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HERBERT MILLER,

Plaintiff,

v.

LES ZIEVE as TRUSTEE,

Defendant.

No. 2:14-cv-01266-GEB-KJN

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S 

DISMISSAL MOTION UNDER RULE 

12(B)(6)

Defendant moves under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 

(“Rules”) 12(b)(6) and 12(b)(7) for dismissal of Plaintiff’s 

verified Complaint. (Def.’s Mem. P. & A. Supp. Mot. to Dismiss

(“Mot.”), ECF No. 10-2.)1 Plaintiff asserts his Complaint

consists of a federal claim under the Equal Credit Opportunity 

Act (“ECOA”), a federal claim under the Fair Credit Reporting Act

(“FCRA”), a California breach of contract claim, and a fraud

claim. Plaintiff avers in his Complaint, inter alia:

Defendant[] willfully, negligently and with 

malice aforethought, filed, or caused to 

filed, a series of documents known to be 

false at the time of the execution and filing 

of the instruments in the public record 

 

1 Defendant asserts it is “erroneously sued as ‘Les Zieve, as Trustee’” 

and should have been sued as “Law Offices of Les Zieve.” (Notice of Mot. 1:26-

27, ECF No. 10-1.) Therefore, in this Order “Defendant” is referenced as the 

Law Offices of Les Zieve.

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against Plaintiff’s interests. Defendant[]

claims an interest that is adverse to 

Plaintiff’s by failing to evidence, after 

notice by Plaintiff and request for such 

evidence, any document executed by the 

beneficiary of the debt obligation, which 

validates certain alleged facts contained 

within the Notice of Default (“NOD”). The 

document that was recorded against 

Plaintiff’s interests, and filed by 

Defendant, that accelerated Plaintiff’s debt 

obligation is the Notice of Default 

(Hereinafter “FALSE INSTRUMENT”), Instrument 

No. 22302017, filed at Santa Clara County CA 

on July 15th, 2013. The false instrument is 

attached hereto as Plaintiff’s Exhibit 1.

(Compl. ¶ 5.) No document referred to as “Exhibit 1” is attached 

to Plaintiff’s Complaint. Plaintiff also relies on two additional 

exhibits in paragraph 43 of his Complaint that are not attached 

to his Complaint. Consideration of the averments in Plaintiff’s 

claims reveals that they are premised on conclusions that are 

unsupported by facts sufficient to allege plausible claims. “To 

survive a motion to dismiss [under Rule 12(b)(6),] a [pleading] 

must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 

‘state a claim [for] relief that is plausible on its face.’” 

Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009) (quoting Bell Atl. 

Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 570 (2007)). “Plausibility 

requires pleading facts, as opposed to conclusory allegations.” 

Somers v. Apple, Inc., 729 F.3d 953, 959 (9th Cir. 2013). Since 

Plaintiff has not plead facts that plausibly support his claims, 

Plaintiff’s claims are dismissed under Rule 12(b)(6). See, e.g.

Greenway Nutrients, Inc. v. Blackburn, 2015 WL 1524941 at *8 (D. 

Colo. Feb. 23, 2015) (dismissing the plaintiff’s breach of 

contract claim where the plaintiff referenced an exhibit he did 

not attach to the complaint and failed to present any “factual 

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averments” supporting his claim.) However, Plaintiff may file an 

amended complaint within ten (10) days of the date on which this 

Order is filed in which the deficiencies in his claims are 

addressed.

Dated: July 13, 2015

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