Allen v. Clark County Detention Center et al

Filing 298

ORDER Granting 297 Defendant's Motion for Leave to Depose an Incarcerated Individual. Signed by Magistrate Judge George Foley, Jr on 5/1/12. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - EDS)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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DISTRICT OF NEVADA

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RONALD LEE ALLEN,

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Plaintiff,
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CLARK COUNTY DETENTION
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CENTER, et al.,
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Defendants. )
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Case No. 2:10-cv-00857-RLH-GWF
ORDER
Motion to Take Deposition of
Incarcerated Person (#297)

This matter is before the Court on Defendants’s Motion for Leave to Depose an Incarcerated
Individual (#297), filed on April 30, 2012.
Defendants move under Fed.R.Civ.P. 30 for leave of the Court to take the deposition of Ronald

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Lee Allen, who is currently incarcerated at Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City.

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Under Fed.R.Civ.P. 30(a)(2)(B), a party “must obtain leave” of the Court in order to conduct the

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deposition of a deponent confined in prison. Id. (emphasis added). The Court will grant Defendants

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leave to depose Plaintiff. Defendants should arrange a time and place with the prison to conduct the

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deposition and properly notice the deposition as required by Fed.R.Civ.P. 30(b). Accordingly,

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IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendants’s Motion for Leave to Depose an Incarcerated
Individual (#297) is granted.
DATED this 1st of May, 2012.

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GEORGE FOLEY, JR.
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE