Skidmore
Skidmore v. The Regents of the University of California
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 6 ALLISON SKIDMORE, Case No. 20-cv-06415-BLF
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING IN PART
v. MOTION FOR ATTORNEYS' FEES
AND COSTS
GREGORY S GILBERT, et al., [Re: ECF No. 85] Defendants.
12 This case was brought by Plaintiff Allison Skidmore (“Plaintiff”) in response to alleged de facto discipline she experienced from faculty members (“Defendants”) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in response to an offensive Facebook post she had made. Plaintiff asserted two § 1983 claims for violations of her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as a state law claim for false light invasion of privacy. On February 2, 2022, the Court issued an order striking Plaintiff’s false light claim under California Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16—also referred to as California’s anti-SLAPP statute—and dismissing her First and Fourteenth Amendment claim on qualified immunity …