Icon Desert Logistics v. City of Blythe

I. INTRODUCTION

This action concerns a June 14, 2018 raid by officers from the City of Blythe Police Department and the County of Riverside Sherriff's Department at Plaintiff Icon Desert Logistics’ (“Icon”) facility for cultivating medical marijuana, located at 401 W. Barnard St. in Blythe, California. On June 18, 2019, plaintiffs Icon, Thomas Lawson, Xiaotong Liu, and Keyao Yu filed this action in the Superior Court for the County of Riverside. Dkt. 1. On September 24, 2020, plaintiffs filed the operative second amended complaint against defendants the City of Blythe and the County of Riverside (“the municipal defendants”); Doe Moreno and Doe Hedges, both sued fictitiously (the “officer defendants”); and Does 1-250, asserting federal claims for the first ttme. Dkt 1-1 (“SAC”). The second amended complaint alleges claims for: (1) violation of plaintiffs’ federal constitutional mghts to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures (against the officer defendants, and the unnamed Doe defendants); (2) violation of the Bane Civil Rights Act, Cal. Civ. Code § 52.1 (against all defendants); (3) municipal liability for violation of federal…