Maurice Hastings v. Grant Price

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6 7 United States District Court 8 Central District of California 9 10 11 MAURICE HASTINGS, Case № 2:23-cv-09684-ODW (AGRx) Plaintiff, v. ORDER GRANTING CLARK 14 GRANT PRICE et al., DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO Defendants. DISMISS [73] 16 17 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Maurice Hastings spent thirty-eight years in prison for a crime he did 20 not commit. (Compl. ¶¶ 38–39; ECF No. 1.) Hastings now brings an action against 21 Grant Price, Russell Enyeart, George W. Clark, and Clark’s Estate, alleging that the 22 three men caused his wrongful incarceration and violated his constitutional rights. (Id. 23 ¶¶ 3, 10–12, 89–91, 112–37.) Clark and his Estate now move to dismiss Hastings’s 24 claims against them for lack of personal jurisdiction, insufficient service, and failure to 25 state a claim. (Mot. Dismiss (“Motion” or “Mot.”), ECF No. 73.) For the reasons 26 below, the Court GRANTS the Motion.1

28 1 After carefully considering the papers filed in connection with the Motion, the Court deemed the matter appropriate for…