Watkins

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MICHAEL W. WATKINS, Case No. 1:21-CV-01348-JLT Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S

MOTION TO DISMISS AND DENYING

v. LEAVE TO AMEND WILLIAM WESTIN, ET AL., (Docs. 27, 47, 48, 49, 53) Defendants. 16 Michael W. Watkins is suing three employees of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in their individual and official capacities1 and the State of California.2 Watkins alleges that the Defendants made and breached a number of promises related to Watkins’s employment with CDCR. Watkins’s claims include breach of contract, a Fourteenth Amendment violation, bate (sic.) and switch fraud, and “taking a way (sic.) livelihood”. (Docs. 25, 27.) Before the Court is Defendants’ motion to dismiss the action in its entirety pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. (Doc. 27.) Watkins opposes dismissal and

26 Defendant William Westin is the Chief of the…