Alegrett et al v. City and County of San Francisco et al

Filing 40

ORDER SETTING HEARING ON DISCOVERY DISPUTE 38 FOR OCTOBER 17, 2013. Signed by Judge Maria-Elena James on 10/10/2013. (mejlc2, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/10/2013)

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1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 Northern District of California 6 7 EDUARDO ENRIQUE ALEGRETT, Plaintiff, 8 v. No. C 12-05538 MEJ ORDER SETTING DISCOVERY HEARING 9 CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, et al., 11 Defendants. _____________________________________/ 12 For the Northern District of California UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 10 13 On September 25, 2013, the parties in this action filed a joint discovery letter detailing a 14 dispute regarding Plaintiff’s Requests for Production of Documents to Defendant City and County of 15 San Francisco, Set One, Request No. 30. Dkt. No. 38. The Court has reviewed the parties’ letter and 16 finds that a hearing on this issue is necessary. 17 Accordingly, the Court sets this matter for hearing on October 17, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in 18 Courtroom B. 19 In advance of the hearing, the Court issues the following questions which counsel should be 20 prepared to address. 21 For Plaintiff: 22 1. 24 Plaintiff’s Request No. 30 seeks all documents imposing discipline on any SFPD officer following a finding by the Office of Citizen Complaints that a Citizen Complaint alleging excessive force was substantiated from 2007 to the present. Why are documents imposing discipline after the date of the incident giving rise to Plaintiff’s claims (February 7, 2012) relevant? 25 For Defendant: 26 1. How many Citizen Complaints alleging excessive force has OCC sustained between 2007 and February 7, 2012? 23 27 28 2. For those complaints identified in question 1, how many resulted in disciplinary action? 1 3. 2 3 4. 4 What is the SFPD’s protocol for discipline following a finding by OCC that an excessive force complaint was substantiated? Particularly, does SFPD generate and maintain documents such as those sought by Plaintiff in Request No. 30? Defendant relies on statements from Lt. Vaswani, which Defendant has also submitted in other lawsuits in this district. Has Defendant been ordered to produce similar documents in any other case involving a Monell claim? 5 IT IS SO ORDERED. 6 7 Dated: October 10, 2013 8 _______________________________ Maria-Elena James United States Magistrate Judge 9 10 12 For the Northern District of California UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2

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