Buccola

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THERESA I. BUCCOLA, Case No. 22-cv-03877-NC Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

v. DISMISS PURSUANT TO FEDERAL

RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE

JOSEPH L. BOUCHER, et al., AND 41 Defendants. Re: ECF 263, 271, 272 15 The City of Carmel-by-the-Sea and five individual Defendants move to dismiss this action based on Plaintiff Theresa Buccola’s failure to comply with the Court’s discovery order at ECF 255. For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS the motion and dismisses this action as to all Carmel Defendants with prejudice pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 37(b) and 41(b). I. BACKGROUND A. Factual Background1 Plaintiff initiated this action against the Carmel Defendants and Monterey County for alleged violations of her constitutional rights stemming from her July 2020 arrest for entering Carmel Beach while it was closed in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Following an announcement…