Brown
Brown v. City Of San Jose
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 STACEY KATZ BROWN, Case No. 24-cv-00044-PCP
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v. DISMISS
CITY OF SAN JOSE, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 46 Defendants.
12 In this civil rights action, plaintiff Stacey Katz Brown alleges that the mayor of San José Matthew Mahan and his chief of staff James Reed violated her Fourteenth Amendment due process rights by disseminating false statements accusing her of leaking Mayor Mahan’s planned vice-mayoral nominee and denying her an opportunity to respond and clear her name. According to the first amended complaint, defendants’ conduct so stigmatized Brown as to prevent her from obtaining new employment for more than a year. Defendants move to dismiss Brown’s claims under Rule 12(b)(6), contending that she fails to state a valid cause of action. For the reasons that follow, the Court grants defendants’ motion without leave to amend and with prejudice. PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND1 …