Estate of Matthew Lee Richards v. Kern County Sheriff’s Office, et al.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ESTATE OF MATTHEW LEE RICHARDS, Case No. 1:24-cv-01294-CDB Plaintiff, ORDER ON STIPULATION GRANTING

PLAINTIFFS LEAVE TO FILE FIRST

v. AMENDED COMPLAINT AS MODIFIED KERN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, (Doc. 25) et al., SEVEN (7)-DAY DEADLINE Defendants. 16 Plaintiffs Estate of Matthew Lee Richards, by and through successors in interest, Derrienne Richards and Robert Williams Richards (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) initiated this action with the filing of a complaint against Defendants County of Kern (erroneously sued as Kern County Sheriff’s Office and Kern County) and Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood (collectively, “Defendants”) on October 23, 2024. (Doc. 1). Plaintiffs seek damages pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988 arising from decedent Matthew Lee Richards’s death by suicide while incarcerated at the Kern County Sheriff’s Office, Mojave Substation Jail. Id. On March 25, 2025, the Court entered the operative…