Reyna

BACKGROUND

I. Factual Background1

25 On June 23, 2023, plaintiff filed a 76-page complaint against 54 defendants for alleged

27 1 The Court is not making a ruling today that any of the allegations in the complaint are or misdeeds in connection with plaintiff’s family law/child custody case and the events surrounding it. Dkt. No. 1 (“Compl.”). The complaint describes numerous abuses plaintiff and her daughter suffered at the hands of her daughter’s father, and the roles that the defendants played in the events that unfolded. The complaint covers a time period from 2014 through 2023. From what the Court can tell, it appears that plaintiff no longer has custody of her daughter, and that the daughter (B.M.) is still a minor, about 15 years old. The complaint also describes at least one incident of the plaintiff being arrested by Santa Cruz police officers, on June 28, 2021, and the aftermath that plaintiff suffered while in jail following the arrest. During that same incident, plaintiff states that Santa Cruz police officers carried out a “violent and brutal assault” against B.M, in which they grabbed her hair and slammed her…