Ghaznawi

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ABDUL GHAZNAWI, No. 2:22-cv-01988-MCE-KJN Plaintiff, v. ORDER SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY, Defendant. 16 Through the present action, Plaintiff Abdul Ghaznawi (“Plaintiff”) seeks to recover from Defendant San Joaquin County (“Defendant”) for injuries sustained when Plaintiff was purportedly subjected to excessive force and deprived of food and water while incarcerated in the San Joaquin County Jail. Presently before the Court is Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Complaint to the extent it attempts to set forth Monell claims against it. ECF No. 4.

1 On a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), all allegations of material fact must be accepted as true and construed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party. Cahill v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 80 F.3d 336, 337–38 (9th Cir. 1996). Rule 8(a)(2) “requires only ‘a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the…