Faria
Faria v. Regents of the University of California CA1/4
Opinion
Opinion
I. BACKGROUND
Faria filed a First Amended Complaint (FAC) against the Regents on October 5, 2020. The Regents demurred to the FAC and moved to strike portions of it. After granting the motion to strike and partially overruling and partially sustaining the demurrer, the trial court granted leave to amend. This led to the filing of the SAC on October 15, 2021, which in turn prompted the Regents to file a demurrer and a Section 437c motion seeking summary judgment or in the alternative summary adjudication. Those motions generated the orders at issue in this appeal.
2 A. Faria’s Second Amended Complaint The narrative Faria sets forth in his SAC ends with agents of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement service arresting him in New York, handcuffing him, shackling him, and frog marching him to a plane bound for Brazil. Faria alleges that this traumatic and undignified deportation from the United States brought to an abrupt end to a promising career as a freshly minted LL.M graduate of Berkeley Law. How this sudden end to Faria’s budding career as a Wall Street tax lawyer came about is the common denominator to each of the causes of action alleged in the SAC. The story…