Rendon

FACTS

According to Rendon, several Orange County Sheriff’s deputies beat, threatened, and sexually abused him while he was in jail. Rendon then filed a string of complaints arising from that abuse—first in 2018, then in 2020, and again in 2021. Rendon brought his first complaint in federal court against the County, Deputy Keith Franklin, and others, alleging claims for federal constitutional violations, violations of the Tom Bane Civil Rights Act (Civ. Code, § 52.1), battery, and negligence. The defendants in that first case filed a motion to dismiss. The district court dismissed Rendon’s federal constitutional claims with prejudice based on his failure to state a claim. It then declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over Rendon’s state law claims, dismissed those remaining claims without prejudice, and entered judgment against Rendon in April 2020. The following month, Rendon filed a second lawsuit—this time in Orange County Superior Court—against the County, Deputy Franklin, Deputy Ever I. Zelaya, and others (the 2020 case). Rendon again alleged he had been beaten and sexually abused in jail, and he again asserted causes of action for federal constitutional violations,…