Ruelas
Ruelas v. County of Alameda
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ARMIDA RUELAS, et al., Case No. 19-cv-07637-JST
Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND
v. DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS’
MOTIONS TO DISMISS
COUNTY OF ALAMEDA, et al., Re: ECF Nos. 161, 162 Defendants.
12 Before the Court is Defendants County of Alameda and Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez’s (County Defendants) motion to dismiss, ECF No. 161, and Defendant Aramark Correctional Services, LLC’s motion to dismiss, ECF No. 162. The Court will grant the County Defendants’ motion and deny Aramark’s motion. I. BACKGROUND A. Factual History For the purpose of deciding this motion, the Court accepts as true the following factual allegations from Plaintiffs’ operative complaint, ECF No. 160. Knievel v. ESPN, 393 F.3d 1068, 1072 (9th Cir. 2005). Plaintiffs are or were “pre-trial detainees, detainees facing deportation, [and] federal detainees” confined in Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail. ECF No. 160 ¶ 1. Starting as early as July 2015,…