Kilgore

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CHRISTOPHER ALLEN OF THE Case No.: 24-CV-1664 JLS (SBC)

FAMILY OTTERSBACH,

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’

Plaintiff, MOTION TO QUASH SERVICE OF v. PROCESS

DAVID KILGORE, through REGION (ECF No. 5) 9 IV-D AGENCY, 16 Defendant. 17 18 19 Presently before the Court is Defendants California Department of Child Support Services (“DCSS”) and former DCSS Director David Kilgore’s Motion to Quash Service of Process (“Mot.,” ECF No. 5). Plaintiff Christopher Allen of the Family Ottersbach did 23 24 1 Plaintiff filed suit against a single Defendant, David Kilgore, sued in his official capacity as DCSS Director. ECF No. 1 at 3. Yet multiple “Defendants” brought the instant Motion, DCSS as well as Kilgore as its former Director. To be sure, a “suit against a governmental officer in his official capacity is equivalent to a suit against the governmental entity itself,” so the Court permits DCSS to appear on…