Bradway
Geoffrey Bradway v. County of San Mateo, et al.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
GEOFFREY BRADWAY, Case No. 25-cv-06918-AGT
Plaintiff,
ORDER ON MOTION TO DISMISS
v. Re: Dkt. No. 12 COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, et al., Defendants.
Defendants County of San Mateo, Owen Grabar, John Carroll, Charles Titus, Sean Lundin-Weston, David Lomu, Luis Rios, Brandt, Soares, and Garrett Pene1 move to dismiss, dkt. 12, plaintiff Geoffrey Bradway’s complaint, dkt. 1, in its entirety. Bradway opposes. Dkt 15. The Court held a hearing on October 31, 2025, and now decides as follows.
I. Legal Standard
To survive a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss, a complaint must “contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to ‘state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.’” Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009) (quoting Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 570 (2007)). In ruling on a Rule 12(b)(6) motion, a court takes “factual allegations in the com- plaint as true and construe[s] the pleadings in the light most favorable to the nonmoving
1 In this order, Defendants refers to the individual officer defendants. San Mateo refers to the defendant county.…