Quinonez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 RENE QUINONEZ, et al., Case No. 22-cv-03195-WHO

Plaintiffs,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

v. DENYING IN PART MOTIONS TO

DISMISS

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 64, 65 Defendants.

12 The defendants, the United States of America and four United States Postal Service or Postal Inspection Service employees, Jeff Agster, Eva Chan, Mark Hodges, and Robin Lee (“the individual defendants”), again move to dismiss claims brought by plaintiffs René Quiñonez and Movement Ink LLC (“Movement Ink”), who allege that the defendants unlawfully seized, detained, and searched four packages containing masks screen-printed with political messages.1 The plaintiffs have now alleged enough to plausibly show that the packages were searched without a warrant, placing their trespass to chattels claim beyond the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”). That claim may proceed based on the alleged search. They have also…