Best

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 4 BRIAN BEST, Case No. 19-cv-02252-YGR

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS

SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT

v. 7 Re: Dkt. No. 51 SONOMA COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT,

ET. AL.,

9 Defendants.

10 Plaintiff Brian Best brings this action against defendants Sonoma County Sheriffs Department, Virgil Smith, Andrew Cash, Rich Celli, Ronald Chestnut (collectively, the “Sonoma County defendants”), and the State of California, alleging violations of his constitutional rights under the Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, violations of several federal and state criminal statutes, and for various state causes of action, including negligence. Now before the Court is the Sonoma County defendants’ second motion to dismiss Best’s amended complaint, or, in the alternative, motion for a more definite statement. (Dkt. No. 51.) Best opposes the motion. (See Dkt. No. 56, 57, 59.) Having carefully reviewed the pleadings, the papers…