Sylvester
Sylvester v. Sacramento County Sheriff's Dept.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RYAN SYLVESTER and ANGELA No. 2:20-cv-01797-TLN-CKD
ELLIS,
12 Plaintiffs, ORDER v.
SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF’S
DEPARTMENT, et al., Defendants. 17 This matter is before the Court on Plaintiffs Ryan Sylvester and Angela Ellis’s (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) Motion to Amend. (ECF No. 6.) Defendants Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, Sacramento County, and Scott Jones (collectively, “Defendants”) filed an opposition (ECF No. 9), and Plaintiffs filed a reply (ECF No. 10). For the reasons set forth below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ motion. /// /// /// /// /// /// I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND This case arises from the death of a pretrial detainee on May 4, 2017. (ECF No. 1-1 at 4.) Plaintiffs, decedent’s parents, filed the operative First Amended Complaint (“FAC”) in Sacramento County Superior Court on June 23, 2020, asserting claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Unruh Civil Rights Act, Civil Code…