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Politics
Eugene Volokh

Elected Official vs. [Chocolate] Dick At Your Door

I missed this when the case was first filed in March; from the Complaintthreat in a lawsuit by Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks against Rain Parade, LLC, doing business as Dick At Your Door:

[5.] On or about June 5, 2021, Defendants and each of them caused to be delivered to Plaintiffs home in Ventura County a "chocolate Dick," an offensive 5 inch chocolate phallus with no redeeming social qualities, whatsoever.

[6.] Defendants, and each of them, have continued their offensive and outrageous conduct by, despite their public statements of disclosure of persons contracting for sending their sick "novelties," failing and refusing to disclose the person(s) ultimately responsible for the offensive and outrageous conduct alleged herein.

[9.] The actions of defendants were outrageous, intentional, and malicious, and done with reckless disregard of the fact that they would certainly cause plaintiff to suffer severe emotional and physical distress.

[10.] As a proximate result of the acts of defendant, plaintiff suffered headaches, severe emotional distress in the form of fear, nervousness, anxiety, worry, and indignity.

I noticed this because of a just-posted California Fair Political Practices Commission decision (released in February), which allowed Parks to use campaign contributions to sue to uncover the name of the person who ordered the phallus (though that wouldn't extend to the substantive lawsuit against Dick At Your Door):

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