Roe
Roe v. City and County of San Francisco
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JANE ROE, et al., Case No. 24-cv-01562-JST
Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND
v. DENYING IN PART MOTION TO
DISMISS
CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Re: ECF No. 51 11 Defendant.
12 Before the Court is Defendant the City and County of San Francisco’s (“the City”) motion to dismiss. ECF No. 51. The Court will grant the motion in part and deny it in part. I. BACKGROUND Plaintiffs are residents and businesses in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco. ECF No. 50 ¶ 6. Plaintiffs allege that the City treats the Tenderloin as a “containment zone” for narcotics activities. Id. Specifically, Plaintiffs contend that “[f]or years, the policy of the City has been to corral and confine illegal drug dealing and usage, and the associated injurious behaviors, to the Tenderloin.” Id. “Addicts living on the Tenderloin’s streets foreseeably support their habit by stealing (e.g. shoplifting, car break-ins,…