Brown v. City Of San Jose

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 STACEY KATZ BROWN, Case No. 24-cv-00044-PCP 8 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO 9 v. DISMISS 10 CITY OF SAN JOSE, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 46 Defendants. 11 12 13 In this civil rights action, plaintiff Stacey Katz Brown alleges that the mayor of San José 14 Matthew Mahan and his chief of staff James Reed violated her Fourteenth Amendment due 15 process rights by disseminating false statements accusing her of leaking Mayor Mahan’s planned 16 vice-mayoral nominee and denying her an opportunity to respond and clear her…