Gold Country Development, LLC v. County of El Dorado

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 GOLD COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT, No. 2:20-cv-01712-MCE-CKD LLC, a New York State limited liability company, et al. Plaintiffs, MEMORANDUM AND ORDER v. COUNTY OF EL DORADO, a public entity, et al., 16 Defendants. 17 By way of this action, Plaintiffs Gold Country Development, LLC, Evelyn A. Gex, , and Christopher J. Marconi (collectively, “Plaintiffs” unless otherwise specified) seek redress for damages and injuries they claim to have sustained as a result of a raid upon their hemp-growing operation in 2019. Defendants include the County of El Dorado (“County”), the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department (“Sheriff’s Department”), El Dorado County Sherriff John D’Agostini (“D’Agostini”) and El Dorado County Sherriff’s Deputy Daryl J. Miller (“Miller”) (“Defendants”). Plaintiffs allege in their Complaint that, in effectuating the subject raid, Defendants deprived them of their Constitutional rights in violation of both 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and California’s Bane Civil…