Crane v. City of Dunsmuir ( 2020 )

1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 6 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 8 JODI L. CRANE, Case No. 20-cv-07010-JSC 9 Plaintiff, SECTION 1915 SCREENING OF 10 v. COMPLAINT 11 CITY OF DUNSMUIR, et al., Defendants. 12 13 14 Plaintiff Jodi Crane brings this civil rights action against the City of Dunsmuir and various 15 city officials. (Dkt. No. 1.) Having granted Ms. Crane’s application to proceed in forma pauperis, 16 (see Dkt. No. 4), the Court now screens the complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915 and concludes 17 that the complaint is deficient for the reasons stated below. 18 COMPLAINT ALLEGATIONS 19 The facts and allegations of the complaint are difficult to discern. It was prepared using 20 the form “Complaint for Violations of Civil Rights,” but it does not specify what rights Ms. Crane 21 alleges were violated by the City of Dunsmuir, City Manager Todd Juhasz, Fire Chief Daniel 22 Padilla, and Mayor Jiliana Lucchessi. Instead, under the section regarding which right(s) were 23 violated Ms. Crane alleges: “THE RIGHT TO RUN A BUISSNESS [sic] WITHOUT 24 CURRUPTION [sic], DEFLAMATION[sic] OR ABUSE FROM OFFICAILS