Estate of Abdollahi Ex Rel. Abdollahi v. County of Sacramento

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MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

This matter is before the court on defendants’, County of Sacramento (“county”), Sheriff Lou Blanas (“Blanas”), Captain Jim Cooper (“Cooper”), Deputy Thomas Mantei (“Mantei”), Judith Johnson, R.N. (“Johnson”), Cheryl Paizis, D.O. (“Paizis”), Henry Ishibashi (“Ishibashi”), Gail Gipson, R.N. (“Gipson”), and Nancy Harnett (“Harnett”), motion for summary judgment or, in the alternative, motion for summary adjudication pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56.

BACKGROUND

This is a consolidated civil right action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 with supplemental state claims brought by the Estates of three decedents, Mohammad Reza Abdollahi (“Abdollahi”), Jake Summers (“Summers”), and Jose Arambula (“Aram-bula”), and individual plaintiffs who are the parents or children of the decedents. All three decedents were inmates at the Sacramento County Jail when they committed suicide. Plaintiffs bring claims arising out of the suicides of the three inmates against the County of Sacramento, Sacramento - County Sheriff Lou Blanas (“Blanas”), Captain James Cooper (“Cooper”), Deputy Thomas Mantei (“Mantei”), Judith Johnson, R.N., (“Johnson”), Henry Ishibahsi…