Bolbol

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DENIZ BOLBOL, et al., Case No. 23-cv-01652-VC

Plaintiffs,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

v. DENYING IN PART CROSS-

MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY

ROWELL RANCH RODEO, INC., et al., JUDGMENT Defendants. Re: Dkt. Nos. 84, 89, 115, 116

There were four incidents over two days that the plaintiffs’ claims are based on, and there is video evidence of all four. First, Rowell Ranch Rodeo volunteer Gary Houts told the plaintiffs —who were at the rodeo to protest animal cruelty—that they needed to go to the designated free speech area. The plaintiffs refused, which everyone now appears to agree was appropriate because the free speech area was too restrictive. Houts then proceeded to call the police and report that the plaintiffs were blocking the entrance and parking lot, even though he could see that they weren’t. Later that day, Hayward Area Recreation and Park District Public Safety Manager Kevin Hart and Alameda County Sheriff’s Deputy Joshua Mayfield approached the plaintiffs. Hart told the plaintiffs that they needed to go to the designated free speech area and that failure to do so…