Rios

Rios v. County of Sacramento

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United States District Court, Eastern District of CaliforniaSeptember 30, 20212:19-cv-00922California12,417 words

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Trial Court Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Betty Rios, et al., No. 2:19-cv-00922-KJM-DB Plaintiffs, ORDER v. County of Sacramento, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 In 2019, Sacramento County and its Sheriff's Department expelled about one hundred unhoused and unsheltered people from a vacant lot owned in part by the County and in part by the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency (SHRA). The people who lived there allege 20 they lost most of their belongings, from tents and beds to clothes and medicine, because they did not have enough notice or time to remove or reclaim those belongings. They assert claims under 22 the federal and California constitutions and California law against the County, the Sheriff's Department, SHRA, and others. The defendants move to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction and for 24 failure to state aclaim. Some of the plaintiffs have standing and have asserted viable claims, so the motion…

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