Lovelady

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 Case No. 24-cv-00075-JD

CHRISTOPHER LOVELADY,

9 Plaintiff, 10 v. ORDER RE DISMISSAL

UNITED STATES CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, et al., 13 Defendants.

15 Pro se plaintiff Christopher Lovelady sued defendants the United States of America and 16 United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) over an incident with CBP officers at San 17 Francisco International Airport after debarking from a flight from Europe. Dkt. No. 1. Lovelady 18 states in the complaint that he has Multiple Hereditary Osteochondromas, a genetic bone 19 condition, and that he declined to answer questions from a CBP officer about goods he may have 20 brought in from Europe. Id. ¶¶ 11-21. In Lovelady’s telling, the situation escalated with 21 additional CBP officers and alleged manhandling that antagonized his bone condition. Id. ¶¶ 22- 22 50. Lovelady says a CBP officer subsequently apologized, and that the situation ended when 23 Lovelady was released to leave the airport. Id. ¶¶ 51-58. Lovelady alleges claims…