Rice
Rice v. County of Lassen
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BRENT RICE, et al., No. 2:20-cv-02427-TLN-KJN Plaintiffs, v. ORDER COUNTY OF LASSEN, et al., Defendants. 16 This matter is before the Court on Defendants County of Lassen (“County”), Kelley Cote, Elizabeth Krier (“Krier”), and Tricia Diamond’s (“Diamond”) (collectively, “Defendants”) Motion to Dismiss. (ECF No. 7.) Plaintiffs Brent Rice (“Rice”) and A.R. (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) filed an opposition. (ECF No. 9.) Defendants filed a reply. (ECF No. 11.) For the reasons set forth below, the Court GRANTS Defendants’ motion. /// /// /// /// /// /// /// I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND1 A.R. suffers from autism. (ECF No. 1 at 5.) In February 2014, when A.R. was 12 years old, police responded to her mother’s report of domestic violence based on a verbal disagreement between A.R. and her mother. (Id.) During the investigation, A.R. accused her father, Rice, of sexually molesting…