United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, 2025

Roxanne Purdagone v. Officer Greg Rodriguez and Michael Pallares

Roxanne Purdagone v. Officer Greg Rodriguez and Michael Pallares
United States District Court for the Eastern District of California · Decided December 31, 2025
Roxanne Purdagone v. Officer Greg Rodriguez and Michael Pallares

Trial Court Opinion

8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA ROXANNE PURDAGONE, Case No. 1:23-cv-01324-JLT-HBK 12 Plaintiff, ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS IN FULL 13 v. (Docs. 21, 39) OFFICER GREG RODRIGUEZ and MICHAEL PALLARES, Defendants.

17 Roxanne Purdagone is a state prisoner proceeding through counsel on her First Amended Complaint alleging violation of civil and constitutional Rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. (Doc.

19 19.) This matter was referred to a United States magistrate judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 302.

21 The assigned magistrate judge issued Findings and Recommendations to grant Defendant Pallares’ motion to dismiss with respect to Plaintiff’s Eighth Amendment cruel and unusual claim of sexual misconduct (claim one) and Plaintiff’s Fourteenth Amendment bodily integrity claim (claim two); deny the motion with respect to Plaintiff’s Eighth Amendment failure to protect claim (claim three) and Plaintiff’s Eighth Amendment supervisory liability claim (claim four); and allow Plaintiff to proceed only on claims three and four against Defendant Pallares.

27 (Doc. 39 at 1, 12.) The Court served the Findings and Recommendations on the parties and notified them that objections were to be filed within 14 days. (Id. at 12-13.) The Court further | warned the parties that “failure to file any objections within the specified time may result in the || waiver of certain rights on appeal.” (/d. at 13 (citing Wilkerson v. Wheeler, 772 F.3d 834, 839 | (9th Cir. 2014)).) Neither party has filed any objections and the time to do so has passed. (See | docket.)

5 According to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C), this Court performed a de novo review of this | case. Having carefully reviewed the entire file, the Court concludes the Findings and || Recommendations are supported by the record and proper analysis. Thus, the Court ORDERS: 8 1. The Findings and Recommendations, issued on December 5, 2025 (Doc. 39), are 9 ADOPTED in full.

10 2. Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss (Doc. 21) is GRANTED with respect to Plaintiff's 11 Eighth Amendment cruel and unusual claim of sexual misconduct (claim one) and 12 Plaintiffs Fourteenth Amendment bodily integrity claim (claim two).

13 3. Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss (Doc. 21) is DENIED with respect to Plaintiff's 14 Eighth Amendment failure to protect claim (claim three) and Plaintiff's Eighth 15 Amendment supervisory liability claim (claim four).

16 4. Plaintiff is allowed to proceed on her Eighth Amendment failure to protect (claim 17 three) and supervisory liability claim (claim four) against Defendant Pallares.

19 IT IS SO ORDERED.

29 | Dated: _ December 31, 2025 Charis [Tourn TED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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