Amber Wallisa v. City of Hesparia et al

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MINUTES (IN CHAMBERS) ORDER RE: PLAINTIFF'S SECOND Ex Parte Application for Production of Tangible Things in Possession of Riverside County Coroner (Application). ECF Docket No. (Dkt.) 64 by Magistrate Judge Kenly Kiya Kato, Plaintiff shall file a Reply in support of the Application on or before April 12, 2018. (dts)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
CIVIL MINUTES--GENERAL

Case No. EDCV 16-02638-FMO (KKx)
Title:

Date:

April 4, 2018

Amber Wallisa v. City of Hesparia, et al.

DOCKET ENTRY
PRESENT: HON. KENLY KIYA KATO, UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
Deb Taylor

None

Deputy Clerk

Court Reporter/Recorder

ATTORNEYS PRESENT FOR PLAINTIFF(S):

None

PROCEEDINGS:

ATTORNEYS PRESENT FOR DEFENDANT(S):

None

(IN CHAMBERS)

On March 19, 2018, Plaintiff Amber Wallisa (“Plaintiff”) filed a Second Ex Parte
Application for Production of Tangible Things in Possession of Riverside County
Coroner (“Application”). ECF Docket No. (“Dkt.”) 64. Specifically, Plaintiff sought
to compel the Riverside County Coroner’s Office, a non-party, to create and produce
autopsy histology slides and conduct a DNA analysis of Decedent Stephen Schenck
(“Decedent”). Id. On March 20, 2018, Defendants County of San Bernardino,
Jonathan Flores, Spencer Wilt, and Kent Watson (“Defendants”) filed an Opposition.
Dkt. 65. On April 3, 2018, the Riverside County Coroner's Office filed an Opposition
to the Application, Dkt. 68, and Defendants filed an Amended and Supplemental
Opposition, Dkt. 69.
It appears the parties were engaged in productive meet and confer efforts with the
Riverside County Coroner's Office and the parties are encouraged to continue such
meet and confer efforts. In light of the Riverside County Coroner's Office's
representation that there are in existence ten histology slides which may be viewed at
the Riverside County Coroner's Office, Plaintiff shall file a Reply in support of the
Application on or before April 12, 2018. Plaintiff shall include the following in her
Reply: (a) specifically what additional slides, if any, and the nature of the DNA
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analysis Plaintiff seeks to have created; (b) whether, and on what basis, Plaintiff
objects to paying the Riverside County Coroner's Office to create such slides or
conduct DNA analysis; and (c) whether, and on what basis, Plaintiff objects to
reviewing the currently existing histology slides at the Riverside County Coroner's
facility in Riverside County.

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