Pries
Pries v. City of Antioch
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
s 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division CODY PRIES, Case No. 21-cv-04890-LB
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO
v. DISMISS
CITY OF ANTIOCH, et al., Re: ECF No. 47 Defendants. 16 In May 2020, police officers — who stopped a car to investigate a petty-theft incident — shot the plaintiff (a passenger in the car) with a bean-bag gun and deployed a police canine, who bit him. The police officers arrested the plaintiff, took him to John Muir Hospital for treatment, and then booked him into the West County Detention Facility, which operates under the control of Contra Costa County, a defendant in this case. The plaintiff sued the police officers for excessive force under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law, and sued the County and unnamed Doe defendants for denial of medical care under § 1983, negligence, and a violation of the Bane Act, Cal. Civ. Code § 52.1. The County moved to dismiss all claims.1 The…