Ladera Taxpayers for Integrity in Governance v. Las Lomitas Elementary School District
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 LADERA TAXPAYERS FOR INTEGRITY Case No. 24-cv-02412-WHO
IN GOVERNANCE,
8 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS v. Re: Dkt. No.
LAS LOMITAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DISTRICT, et al., Defendants.
Plaintiff Ladera Taxpayers for Integrity in Governance (the “Ladera Taxpayers”) alleges that defendants Las Lomitas Elementary School District (“LLESD” or the “District”), its governing board, and several of its administrators violated the plaintiff’s First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, along with California state law, when they leased out part of an LLESD campus to a private school for the private school’s exclusive use during school hours. Because LLESD and its agents are arms of the state and thus immune under the Eleventh Amendment from lawsuits in federal court, LLESD’s motion to dismiss is GRANTED and the case is dismissed without prejudice to it being refiled in a court of competent jurisdiction. …