Chao
Chao v. County of Shasta
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 SEING CHAO, No. 2:21-cv-01819-MCE-DMC Plaintiff, v. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER COUNTY OF SHASTA, a public entity; AGENT TYLER FINCH, of the Shasta County Interagency Narcotics Task Force; DEANNE ELLIOT; and DOES 1 to 10, inclusive, Defendants. 17 Through the present lawsuit, Plaintiff Seing Chao (“Plaintiff”) alleges that she sustained injuries as a result of the execution of a faulty search warrant obtained by the Shasta Interagency Narcotics Task Force, a collaborative effort to reduce narcotics within Defendant Shasta County (“County”). The Court previously granted with leave to amend a motion to dismiss Plaintiff’s First Amended Complaint filed by the County. Plaintiff timely filed a Second Amended Complaint (“SAC”), dropping her original claims against the County relating to the use of force and the identification of marijuana and adding new claims for retaliatory prosecution against both the County and a new 26 …