Selene Finance, LP v. County of Sacramento

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SELENE FINANCE LP, No. 2:23-cv-01124-DJC-CKD Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER DENYING MOTION TO DISMISS

COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO; JIM

COOPER, solely in his official capacity as the SHERIFF OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY; MALCOLM & CISNEROS, a California law corporation; and Does 17 1–25, 18 Defendants. 19 20 Plaintiff Selene Finance LP (“Selene”) brings a section 1983 claim against the County of Sacramento, Jim Cooper in his official capacity as the Sheriff of Sacramento County (“the Sheriff’s Office”), and Selene’s former counsel, Malcolm & Cisneros (“the Firm”), as well as 25 Doe Defendants. Selene alleges that Sacramento County and the Sheriff’s Office (together, “County Defendants”) violated Selene’s cognizable property interests under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause following an allegedly defective judicial foreclosure sale, and that the Firm committed legal malpractice during its representation of Selene throughout the judicial foreclosure sale. The…