Stewart

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 11 CHRISTOPHER STEWART, No. 2:19-cv-00286-JAM-CKD Plaintiff, v. ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS

DIXON AND STARR’S MOTION

LAW FU, ASSOCIATE WARDEN MELBA S. TO DISMISS STARR, PAROLE OFFICER KEN DIXON, et al., Defendants. 18 Christopher Stewart (“Plaintiff”) sued Associate Warden 19 Melba S. Starr and Parole Officer Ken Dixon (collectively, 20 “Defendants”), as well as a host of Sacramento County employees, 21 alleging excessive force, deliberate indifference to medical 22 needs, and deprivation of due process in violation of his Fourth, 23 Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights when he was in the 24 Sacramento County Jail and, later, the California Department of 25 Corrections and Rehabilitation Deuel Vocational Institute 26 (“DVI”). See Second Am. Compl. (“SAC”), ECF No. 32. Plaintiff 27 also alleges a handful of state law claims. Id. 28 Defendants move to dismiss: (1) Plaintiff’s first cause of action against Dixon for battery and…