Cotti
Cotti v. California Department of Human Services Director
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 4 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 SAN JOSE DIVISION 6 ALICE COTTI and VLADIMIR 7 SERDYUKOV, Case No. 18-cv-02980-BLF 8 Plaintiffs, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFFS’
MOTION FOR RELIEF; GRANTING
9 v. REMAINING DEFENDANTS’
MOTION TO DISMISS THIRD
10 PA CHANG, et al., AMENDED COMPLAINT WITHOUT
LEAVE TO AMEND; AND
11 Defendants.
DISMISSING ACTION
12 [RE: ECF 160, 165]
13
14 Plaintiffs Alice Cotti and Vladimir Serdyukov filed this action after their two children were 15 removed from the family home following police officers’ response to a report of domestic 16 disturbance. Plaintiffs were arrested and the children were taken into protective custody by social 17 workers who were called to the scene. Plaintiffs claim that the children’s removal was without 18 adequate cause, and that social workers’ allegations regarding domestic violence, substance abuse, 19 and a non-accidental fracture to one child’s leg were without basis. 20 A majority of the twenty-four defendants…