Harper
Harper v. Monterey County of
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 CURTIS HARPER, CASE NO. 18-cv-03695-YGR
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING
vs. IN PART MOTION TO DISMISS
COUNTY OF MONTEREY, ET AL., Re: Dkt. No. 67 Defendants.
Plaintiff Curtis Harper brings this civil rights action arising out of his arrest by the Salinas Police Department and subsequent incarcerations at the Monterey County Jail. The operative complaint alleges six causes of action. Before the Court is defendants County of Monterey, Christopher St. Clair, Gerald Arreola, and Reanna Lilga’s motion to dismiss the third cause of action for racial discrimination and the sixth cause of action for Monell violations.1 To survive a motion to dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), “a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to ‘state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.’” Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009) (quoting Bell Atlantic Corp. v. …