Free Spirit Organics, NAC v. San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 1] Free Spirit Organics, NAC, et al., No. 2:17-CV-02271-KJM-JDP Plaintiffs, ORDER v. San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors, et al., Defendants. 17 Plaintiffs claim various San Joaquin County officials violated their constitutional rights by 19 prohibiting plaintiffs from growing hemp. See generally Third Am. Compl. (TAC), ECF No. 100. The court previously granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss in part, dismissing all but one claim. Prev. Mot. (Aug. 11, 2020), ECF No. 101; Prev. Order (Mar. 25, 2022) at 13, ECF No. 107. For the one remaining claim, which rested on the Fourth Amendment, the court held that 24 although the Sheriff’'s Department had obtained a valid warrant to search and seize the plaintiffs’ hemp crop, the plaintiffs had plausibly alleged the search was unreasonable because it was not conducted in compliance with the warrant’s terms. Prev. Order (Mar.…