Green v. City and County of San Francisco et al

Filing 112

Discovery Order. Oral argument is set for September 5, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. in Courtroom A on the 15th floor for the letter briefs concerning Special Interrogatory No. 19, Requests for Production Nos. 38 & 39, and Special Interrogatory No. 22. Signed by Judge Thomas S. Hixson on 8/30/2019. (tshlc2S, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 8/30/2019)

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1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 MORRIS GREEN, Plaintiff, 8 9 10 11 Case No. 17-cv-00607-TSH DISCOVERY ORDER v. Re: Dkt. No. 111 CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, et al., United States District Court Northern District of California Defendants. 12 13 Plaintiff Morris Green and Defendant City and County of San Francisco have filed four 14 joint discovery letter briefs. ECF No. 111. The Court sets oral argument for September 5, 2019 at 15 10:00 a.m. in Courtroom A on the 15th floor for the letter briefs concerning Special Interrogatory 16 No. 19, Requests for Production Nos. 38 & 39, and Special Interrogatory No. 22. 17 The Court GRANTS Green’s motion to compel with respect to Request for Admission No. 18 27 and ORDERS the City to respond within 30 days. Whether or not Cruz applied for the exact 19 same position that Green did is immaterial because it appears that she applied for and got a 20 comparable position. That is enough to make her experience and qualifications relevant. 21 The Court GRANTS Green’s motion to compel with respect to Requests for Production 22 Nos. 31 and 32 and ORDERS the City to produce responsive documents within 30 days. These 23 documents are directly relevant to Green’s claim of discrimination. The City asserts that Green 24 lacks the requisite experience for this job, but these documents will allow Green to test that 25 assertion. The City is correct that these RFPs implicate privacy interests, but that concern can be 26 mitigated by the entry of a protective order. This District has model protective orders that parties 27 can use. See https://cand.uscourts.gov/model-protective-orders. The Court ORDERS the parties 28 to submit a stipulated proposed protective order within 15 days to address the City’s privacy 1 concern. Finally, the City’s argument that allowing this discovery will open the door to similar 2 discovery for the several dozen other positions Green applied for does not make sense because fact 3 discovery closed on August 22, 2019, and yesterday was the last day to move to compel. 4 5 IT IS SO ORDERED. 6 7 Dated: August 30, 2019 8 THOMAS S. HIXSON United States Magistrate Judge 9 10 United States District Court Northern District of California 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2

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