Peterson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 VICTORIA R. PETERSON, Case No. 3:19-cv-01447-WHO

Plaintiff,

ORDER ON EDDINGS, WEST, AND

v. PUTNAM MOTIONS TO DISMISS

WILLIAM MARTINEZ, et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 105, 107 Defendants.

12 Three more defendants move to dismiss claims arising out of the sexual abuse plaintiff Victoria Peterson alleges she experienced at the hands of an employee at the Federal Correctional Institute, Dublin (“FCI Dublin”). According to Peterson, defendants Joel Eddings and Bruce West, her work supervisors at FCI Dublin, knew about their coworker’s misconduct for months and yet failed to act, instead mocking her about the abuse. When Eddings and West finally detailed the abuse in a memorandum to defendant Stephen Putnam, Putnam failed to act for several days while the abuse continued. Contrary to the defendants’ arguments, detailed below, Peterson’s Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claims are adequately pleaded, Eddings, West, and Putnam are not…