Steel

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CANDACE STEEL, et al., Case No. 3:18-cv-05072-JD

Plaintiffs,

ORDER RE MOTION TO DISMISS

v. 9 Re: Dkt. No. 14 ALAMEDA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, et al., 11 Defendants.

12 As alleged in the first amended complaint (“FAC”), Candace Steel was left alone in a jail cell to give birth to her child, Baby H, while in the pretrial custody of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. Dkt. No. 10. Steel was not given any assistance or care during the delivery. Baby H was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, and Steel had to stick her fingers into Baby H’s mouth to start respiration. Sheriff’s deputies went into Steel’s cell only after they heard Baby H cry. Steel and Baby H are the plaintiffs in this civil rights action. Defendants are the Sheriff’s Office, certain individuals, the California Forensic Medical Group (“CFMG”), which is under contract with Alameda County to provide medical services at the jail, and the County itself. CFMG answered the complaint and…