White
White v. Social Security Administration
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Tigar, J.
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS
Before the Court is a motion to dismiss filed by Defendants the United States of America, the Social Security Administration (“SSA”), and Ryan Luis, ECF No. 15, and Defendants’ Request for Judicial Notice, ECF No. 15-1. For the reasons set forth below, the Court will grant the motion to dismiss and the request for judicial notice.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Factual Allegations
For the purposes of deciding this motion to dismiss, the Court accepts as true the following allegations from Plaintiffs’ complaint. ECF No. 1.
On April 5, 2013, Plaintiff Ms. Lisa White went to the SSA office in Walnut Creek, California, to apply for a new social security number for her adopted son, Plaintiff J.W. Compl. ¶ 10. She met with Defendant Ryan Luis, an employee of the Social Security Administration, who made photocopies of Ms. White’s driver’s license and J.W.’s adoption order and reissued birth certificate. Id. ¶¶ 11, 13. Luis also wrote down Ms. White’s social security number and Plaintiff Mr. Jodie White’s social security number and driver’s license number. Id. ¶ 15. He gave Ms. White a receipt of the meeting, and advised her to return to the SSA office…