Price v. City of N.Y.
15 Civ. 5871 (KPF) (S.D.N.Y. Jun. 25, 2018)
1. Malicious prosecution claims under the
Fourth Amendment against Simmons, in
her individual and official capacities, and
the City of New York;
When considering a motion to dismiss under
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), a court
should "draw all reasonable inferences in
Plaintiff['s] favor, assume all well-pleaded factual
allegations to be true, and determine whether they
plausibly give rise to an entitlement to relief."
Faber v. Metro. Life Ins. Co., 648 F.3d 98, 104 (2d
Cir. 2011) (internal quotation marks and citation
omitted). Thus, "[t]o survive a motion to dismiss,
a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter,
accepted as true, to 'state a claim to relief that is
plausible on its face.'" Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S.
662, 678 (2009) (quoting Bell Atl. Corp. v.
Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 570 (2007)). While this
plausibility requirement "is not akin to a
probability requirement . . . , it asks for more than
a sheer possibility that a defendant has acted
unlawfully." Id. (internal quotation marks
omitted).
2. First Amendment claims against Obe,
Brooks, and Pierre-Louis, in their
individual and official capacities, and the
City of New York;
3. False arrest claims under the Fourth
Amendment, against Corrado, Cruz, and
Staines, in their individual and official
capacities, and the City of New York;
4. False arrest, excessive force, and
malicious prosecution claims under the
Fourth Amendment, against MTA Officer
John Doe and MTA Officer Jane Doe, in
their individual and official capacities, and
the City of New York; and
5. Substantive due process claims under
the Fourteenth Amendment, against all of
the individual defendants, related to the
assault and denial of services on January
24, 2017.
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(FAC ¶¶ 186-90). Plaintiff seeks a declaratory
judgment that Defendants have violated her
constitutional rights, a permanent injunction
restraining Defendants from placing or keeping
her on a do-not-serve list or deeming her a
fabricator, and compensatory and punitive
damages. *12
The City Defendants have moved, under Rule
12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,
to dismiss all claims against them, except for the
false arrest claims against Corrado, Cruz, and
Staines. The MTA and its officers are not parties
to this motion.
A. Applicable Law
1. Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure
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Toward that end, a plaintiff must provide more
than "an unadorned, the-defendant-unlawfullyharmed-me accusation." Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 678. It
is not enough for a plaintiff to allege "naked
assertions or conclusory statements"; rather, a
plaintiff must come forward with "factual content
that allows the court to draw the reasonable
inference that the defendant is liable for the *13
misconduct alleged." Biro v. Conde Nast, 807 F.3d
541, 544 (2d Cir. 2015) (internal quotation marks
omitted). The Court is obliged, however, to
construe pro se pleadings liberally, Harris v. Mills,
572 F.3d 66, 72 (2d Cir. 2009), and interpret them
to raise the "strongest [claims] that they suggest,"5
Triestman v. Fed. Bureau of Prisons, 470 F.3d
471, 474 (2d Cir. 2006) (internal quotation marks
and citations omitted, emphasis in original); see
generally McLeod v. Jewish Guild for the Blind,
864 F.3d 154, 157 (2d Cir. 2017).
5 The
Court
notes
that
Plaintiff's
memorandum of law in opposition to this
motion "was prepared with the assistance
of the New York Legal Assistance Group
Legal Clinic for Pro Se Litigants in the
SDNY." (See Pl. Opp. 2 n.1). Accordingly,
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