Feng
Feng v. County of Santa Clara
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division KARENA A. FENG, Case No. 19-cv-06877-LB
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS TO
v. DISMISS
COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, et al., Re: ECF Nos. 11, 14, 18, 21 Defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION Pro se plaintiff Karena A. Feng has been diagnosed with a mental disorder, and at one point (when she was in a maternity recovery ward), a psychiatrist evaluated her and hospitalized her involuntarily under California and Welfare Institutions Code § 5150. Ms. Feng claims that this placement occurred so that the Department of Family and Child Services (“DFCS”) could put her children up for adoption or sex trafficking. Ms. Feng sued defendants the County of Santa Clara, the City and County of San Francisco, psychiatrist Anna Piotrowski, M.D., Santa Clara social workers Mayra Alvarez and Brian Hawkinson, San Francisco social worker Amy Yim, California Superior Court…