Perez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 ALEJANDRO ANDRES PEREZ, et al., Case No. 1:25-cv-00358-KES-CDB

Plaintiffs, ORDER ON PLAINTIFFS’S EX PARTE

APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT OF

v. GUARDIAN AD LITEM

COUNTY OF KERN, et al., (Docs. 8, 9)

Defendants.

Background Plaintiff Ashley Sinden (“Plaintiff”), as the natural parent and purported successor in interest of decedent minor Alejandro Andres Perez (“A.P.”), initiated this action with the filing of a complaint on March 25, 2025. (Doc. 1). In the complaint, Plaintiff asserts claims pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to recover damages for Defendants’ actions and/or failures resulting in the wrongful death of A.P. while in and under Defendants’ care, custody, control, and supervision. (Id. ¶ 3-4). The complaint alleges that A.P. is the deceased minor child of Sinden and that Plaintiff, as the natural mother of A.P. whose parental rights were never terminated, has standing as A.P.’s rightful heir under C.C.P. § 377.60(a) and…