Jacobson v. Ketchikan Police Department et al

Filing 77

Order on Motion to Compel

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA

ANDREA JACOBSON,
Plaintiff,
vs.

Case No. K03-0003 CV (RRB)

KETCHIKAN POLICE DEPARTMENT;
CITY OF KETCHIKAN, and
Individually DAN ANSLINGER,
Individually and as Police
Chief; GRANT SIREVOG,
individually and as Deputy and
current Police Chief; KARL
AMYLON, Individually and as
Ketchikan City Manager,

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO COMPEL

Defendants.

Before
(“Plaintiff”)

the

with

a

Court

is

Conditional

Plaintiff
Motion

for

Andrea
Order

Jacobson
Compelling

Discovery (Docket No. 34). Plaintiff contends Defendants Ketchikan
Police Department, et al., (“Defendants”) have not fully responded
to five of her requests for production and have not provided
adequate reasons for failing to do the same.

Defendants oppose at

Docket No. 60 and argue, primarily, that "[a]ll of the materials
that are responsive to Plaintiff's request[s] have either been

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produced or are available for review at the [Ketchikan Police
Department's] attorney's office."

Clerk's Docket No. 60 at 3.

Based upon the aforesaid, and because the Court concludes
Plaintiff's Request for Production No. 31 is not "reasonably
calculated to lead to discoverable information and disclosure of
the information would [likely] violate the privacy rights of the
officers, as well as violate the psychotherapist privilege, see
Fed.

R.

Evid.

501,"

Clerk's

Docket

No.

60

at

6

(footnote

omitted)(emphasis added), Plaintiff's Conditional Motion for Order
Compelling Discovery (Docket No. 34) is hereby DENIED.
ENTERED this 5th day of January, 2006.

/s/ RALPH R. BEISTLINE
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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