Gravitt

MEMORANDUM *

This case involves the theft of approximately 300 kilograms ($4.5 million worth) of cocaine from the evidence vault located at the California Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement (“BNE”), Riverside Regional Office. Appellant Shirlene Gravitt (“Gravitt”), the BNE Property Controller responsible for managing the vault, brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit against several state and city defendants, alleging violations of her Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights as well as a state law defamation claim stemming from the defendants’ allegedly wrongful treatment of Gravitt as the “primary suspect” in the theft investigation. We affirm.

I.

Gravitt makes two separate Fourth Amendment claims. First, she contends that the defendant law enforcement officers unlawfully searched her property because they submitted a falsified affidavit in support of their search warrant. Second, she argues that the defendant law enforcement officers searched her home in an unreasonable manner by sending forty officers and twenty patrol cars to her home to conduct the search.

*703 We need not reach the merits of Gravitt’s first claim in light of the fact…