Watkins
Watkins v. Westin
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MICHAEL W. WATKINS, Case No. 1:21-CV-01348-JLT Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR
RECONSIDERATION
v. (Doc. 60) WILLIAM WESTIN, ET AL.,
Defendants. 16 Michael W. Watkins filed this suit against three employees of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in their individual and official capacities1 and the State of California. Watkins alleged that the Defendants made and breached a number of promises related to Watkins’s employment with CDCR. Watkins’s claims included breach of contract, a Fourteenth Amendment violation, “bate (sic.) and switch” fraud, and “taking a way (sic.) livelihood.” (Docs. 25, 27.) When Defendants moved to dismiss the action in its entirety pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, (Doc. 27), Watkins lodged both a Second and Third
Defendant William Westin is the Chief of the Inspection Services Section of CDCR; Defendant Edward Milam is the Central…