Susan Dyer Reynolds v. Dean E. Preston

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS JUN 3 2024

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SUSAN DYER REYNOLDS, No. 23-15504

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 3:22-cv-08408-WHO

v.

MEMORANDUM*

DEAN E. PRESTON,

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California William Horsley Orrick, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted May 30, 2024 San Francisco, California

Before: KOH, H.A. THOMAS, and DESAI, Circuit Judges.

Dean E. Preston, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,

appeals a district court order denying his motion to dismiss Susan Dyer Reynolds’s

claim that Preston violated Reynolds’s First Amendment rights by blocking her on

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. Twitter.1 “We have jurisdiction under the collateral order doctrine to review a

district court’s rejection of a qualified immunity defense at the motion to dismiss

stage, and we review such a denial de novo.” Polanco…