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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Product Liability

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

NICOLE ALFANO, et al.,

Plaintiffs, No. CIV S-08-1704 JAM DAD

v.

BRP INC., et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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This case came before the court on April 9, 2010, for hearing on plaintiff’s motion

to compel production of documents. The motion was granted in part. The order signed by the

undersigned on April 9, 2010 provides that 

[w]ithin twenty days from the date of the hearing, defendants shall

serve on plaintiffs’ counsel an affidavit of search describing in

reasonable detail the records that were searched and the scope of

the search, including any limitations or interpretations imposed by

defendants on the search, in producing documents in response to

Request No. 20 of plaintiff’s first set of requests for production of

documents.

(Doc. No. 63, Order filed Apr. 12, 2010, at 1 (emphasis added).) Defendants have filed a

document titled “Affidavit of Search Related to Request for Production No. 20, Pursuant to

Court Order Dated April 9, 2010,” and a request to permanently seal a document cited in that

affidavit.

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Defendants were not ordered to file a copy of the affidavit they were required to

serve pursuant to the court’s April 9, 2010 ruling. Absent a specific court order to the contrary,

no discovery document is to be filed with the court unless and until there is a proceeding in

which the document is at issue. See Local Rules 250.2, 250.3, 250.4, and 250.5. At the present

time, there is no proceeding in which defendants’ affidavit of search is at issue.

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that:

1. Defendants’ April 29, 2010 affidavit (Doc. No. 71) will be disregarded;

2. Defendants’ May 3, 2010 request to file a document under seal (Doc. No. 72)

is denied; and

3. Within five days after this order is served, defendants’ counsel shall contact

Pete Buzo, courtroom deputy to the undersigned, at (916) 930-4128, to make arrangements for

the return, destruction, or other disposition of the court’s copies of the document that was

submitted to the court for filing under seal.

DATED: May 6, 2010.

DAD:kw

Ddad1/orders.civil/alfano1704.reqtoseal.den

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