Ruffin
Ruffin v. San Francisco Sheriff's Department
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 SHAWN RUFFIN, Case No. 20-cv-07826-VKD
Plaintiff,
ORDER OF REASSIGNMENT TO A
v. DISTRICT JUDGE
SAN FRANCISCO SHERIFF'S
DEPARTMENT,
12 Defendant.
13 Pro se plaintiff Shawn Ruffin appears to be a pretrial detainee at the San Francisco County Jail. He filed this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department and numerous employees thereof. Dkt. No. 1 at 2. On March 5, 2021, the Court screened the complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, and dismissed it with leave to amend, affording Mr. Ruffin an opportunity to plead facts sufficient to state a cognizable claim under the Fourteenth Amendment and equal protection. Dkt. No. 9. Mr. Ruffin was directed to file an amended complaint within twenty-eight days from the date the order was filed. Id. at 6. He was advised that failure to do so would result in this matter being reassigned to a…