Harris
Harris v. County of San Diego
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
BACKGROUND
24 1. Facts 25
27 1 Citations refer to material in the Electronic Case File (“ECF”); pinpoint citations are to the ECF-generated page The Court assumes the parties’ familiarity with the facts and procedural history of the case and recounts only the facts relevant to this motion. Plaintiffs JQ.H and JZ.H are two minors born in or around October 2002. (ECF No. 62 (“TAC”), ¶¶ 3–4.) According to the TAC, on May 17, 2011, JQ.H told a school counselor, Defendant Kristen Dunphy, that his mother “hits him with a cell phone charging cord, and sometimes a belt with a buckle.” (Id. at ¶ 23.) He also showed Ms. Dunphy “bruising on his outer right hip area.” (Id.) The TAC also alleges that Ms. Dunphy “strip searched” JQ.H at some unspecified time and place without his mother’s consent. (Id. at ¶ 25.) Ms. Dunphy drafted an Incident Report that recounts her meeting with JQ.H. (Id. at ¶¶ 22–23.) Defendants Robbins and Curran, officers with the San Diego Police Department (a city rather than County entity (Id. at ¶ 7), arrived on the scene in response to Ms. Dunphy’s child abuse report. (Id. at ¶ 27.) The…