Gregory Lee (Partner-LA) and Carlos MacManus (Of Counsel-LA) represented a security services provider accused of violating the plaintiff’s state and federal civil rights before the Central District Court of California. The plaintiffs alleged that members of the Los Angeles Police Department violated their state and federal civil rights by forcibly entering their home without a warrant and conducting an unconstitutional search of their residence. They further alleged that the employees of the firm's client, a security services provider, jointly assisted the police officers in committing the alleged constitutional violations by collectively searching with the police officers the building where the plaintiffs lived, and by providing a key for the plaintiff's residence to the police officers. The plaintiffs sued the firm’s client for civil rights violations under 42 USC §1983 and California's Bane Act, in addition to common law claims for negligence and trespass. Greg and Carlos litigated multiple rounds of Rule 12 motions to dismiss that argued, among other things, that the allegations failed to adequately establish that the client was a governmental actor or that the client's actions interfered with the constitutional and legal rights of the plaintiffs. The federal district judge ultimately agreed with Greg and Carlos and granted their Rule 12 motion to dismiss with prejudice as to all claims against the client.