Ramirez
Ramirez v. The Geo Group, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
9 RAYMOND RAMIREZ, et al., CASE NO. 18cv2136-LAB (MSB) 10 Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND vs. DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR CLASS CERTIFICATION THE GEO GROUP, et al., [Dkt. 50]; Defendants.
ORDER GRANTING JOINT MOTIONS TO SEAL [Dkts. 48, 84] 15
Currently before the Court is Plaintiff Raymond Ramirez’s Motion for Class Certification. For the reasons below, that motion is granted in part and denied in part. BACKGROUND Defendant GEO Group and its subsidiaries own and operate private prisons throughout the United States. From 2000 until 2017, Plaintiff Raymond Ramirez served as a corrections officer at the Western Region Detention Facility (“the Facility”) in San Diego. The Facility is owned by GEO Group subsidiary GEO Corrections and Detentions, LLC (collectively, “GEO”) and houses between 700 and 770 federal detainees…