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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FULLER,

Plaintiff,

 v.

CANTRELL ET AL,

Defendants. /

No. C-03-05616 MMC (EDL)

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S

MOTION TO COMPEL

For the reasons stated at the hearing, the Court grants Plaintiff’s motion to compel and orders

as follows:

• Defendants’ objections to Requests for Production No. 6 and 7 are sustained without

prejudice to the extent that the Requests call for documents relating to members of the

Richmond Police Department’s K9 unit who were not present at the time of the incident

alleged in Plaintiff’s complaint. Actions by officers who were not present are relevant solely

to Monell claims, which have been stayed by the District Court judge. If necessary, Plaintiff

may move to compel responses to these Requests after trial on the individual Defendants’

liability. Defendants’ remaining objections are overruled, including their privacy objections.

• Within fourteen days, Defendants shall produce all documents that are not protected

by the attorney-client or work-product privilege and are responsive to the discovery requests

addressed in Plaintiff’s motion, except as noted above. Plaintiff is entitled to discovery

relating to Defendants’ use of force, use of canines, non-reporting of police misconduct,

disciplinary records, notes regarding Defendants’ interaction with members of the

community and/or suspects, performance appraisals, training, and similar information if any

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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exists. Defendants, however, may withhold and redact private and irrelevant personal

financial and medical information contained in personnel files, as well as information

relating to conflicts with coworkers (as opposed to non-police). 

• Defendants shall provide a privilege log complying with this Court’s standing order,

and shall log any documents withheld based on privilege or privacy, as described above. 

• Each individual Defendant shall sit for one additional hour of deposition, during

which Plaintiff may pose the questions which Defendants were improperly instructed not to

answer, as well as reasonable follow-up questions.

• Within fourteen days, each individual Defendant shall file signed declarations

describing the efforts each made to locate responsive documents, the result of the search, and

the documents produced or the lack of documents discovered. 

• Plaintiff’s request for sanctions is denied.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 1, 2006 

ELIZABETH D. LAPORTE

United States Magistrate Judge

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