Rebagliati-Ribbeck
Rebagliati-Ribbeck v. County of Alameda
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 MARTA REBAGLIATI-RIBBECK, Case No. 24-cv-08836-CRB
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v.
DISMISS
COUNTY OF ALAMEDA, et al., Defendants.
Plaintiff Marta Rebagliati-Ribbeck sues the County of Alameda, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, and various individual employees of the Sheriff’s Office, alleging that they failed to adequately investigate an alleged assault against her by a FedEx driver. Defendants move to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, arguing that all of Rebagliati-Ribbeck’s theories of liability rest on a fundamentally flawed constitutional claim—failure to investigate. Defendants are correct: Rebagliati-Ribbeck did not have a right to have the police investigate the alleged assault in any particular way, and she did not suffer any liberty or property deprivation as a result of their investigation. Thus, she has not stated a claim, and the Court GRANTS Defendants’ motion to dismiss.1 I. …