Miroth

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Patricia A. E. Miroth, Stanley R. Miroth, No. 2:22-cv-00460-KJM-JDP Plaintiffs, ORDER v. County of Trinity, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 Patricia and Stanley Miroth allege Trinity County and several of its employees! wrongfully deprived them of their parental rights and took two children from their custody. The defendants move to dismiss the complaint. As explained below, this case amounts to a de facto 20 appeal of several state court orders terminating the plaintiffs’ parental rights, which this court has jurisdiction to hear. However, it is possible the plaintiffs could amend their complaint to 22 allege the defendants defrauded the state court, and this court would have jurisdiction to hear such aclaim. The complaint is thus dismissed with leave to amend.

' The individual defendants are Liz Hamilton, Mario Angelone, Nicole Hays Bradford, Allison Ballard, Megan Scalzo (formerly Sholty-Scalzo), Angela…