DeFigh
DeFigh v. City of Oakland
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JARED DEFIGH, Case No. 3:23-cv-02009-JD (WHO)
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING TEMPORARY
v. RESTRAINING ORDER
CITY OF OAKLAND, Re: Dkt. No. 2 Defendant.
12 The pro se plaintiffs in this action are residents and former residents of the former homeless encampment at 1707 Wood Street in Oakland, California (“1707 Encampment”). They filed a motion for temporary restraining order (“TRO”) seeking to restrain the defendant City of Oakland from carrying out an ongoing eviction and closure of the 1707 Encampment. (“Mot.”) [Dkt. No. 2]. The motion asserts that the City is violating the plaintiffs’ rights under the Fourteenth Amendment and the state created danger doctrine. See id. The plaintiffs provide several sworn declarations stating that City workers and police officers are throwing away residents’ property, using a bulldozer in an unsafe manner, not storing property, and tearing down structures. See id. This…