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

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Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SUSAN GALINIS, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

BAYER CORPORATION, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 09-cv-04980-SI 

ORDER RE: DISCOVERY DISPUTE

Re: Dkt. No. 120

The parties have filed a joint discovery dispute statement regarding defendant’s request that 

plaintiff Susan Galanis provide updated authorizations for the release of additional medical records. 

Dkt. No. 120. Defendant states that most recent authorization plaintiff signed allowed it to collect 

her medical records through July 2017. Id. at 2. Defendant argues it is entitled to an updated 

authorization for the release of medical records since July 2017 because this case is set for trial in 

December 2019, see Dkt. No. 112, and plaintiff plans to put her medical condition at issue by 

arguing that after taking defendant’s birth control pill, she suffered a stroke that left her with 

continuing pain, cognitive deficits, and more, and a need for ongoing medical care. Dkt. No. 120 at 

1. Plaintiff does not dispute that she is putting her medical condition at issue but argues that 

defendant is not entitled to further authorizations for records because the discovery cut-off in this 

case (as previously set by the MDL transferee court in the Southern District of Illinois) was in 

September 2016. Id. at 3. Plaintiff says there is no good cause to modify the scheduling order 

setting the discovery cut-off and argues that allowing defendant to seek these additional records may 

result in defendant seeking to re-open other discovery matters. Id. at 4 (citing Fed. R. Civ. P. 

16(b)(4)). 

The Court disagrees with plaintiff and finds there is good cause to modify the prior 

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scheduling order, in light of the medical issues that plaintiff has raised in this case, and the fact that 

trial will occur more than two years after the most recent medical records that defendant has 

obtained. Plaintiff has previously authorized defendant to obtain her medical records, and allowing 

defendant to get updated records in order to prepare for trial will not re-open discovery. 

Accordingly, the Court GRANTS defendant’s request and ORDERS that plaintiff provide 

defendant an updated medical records authorization so that defendant may collect medical records 

since the last collection in 2017. Plaintiff shall provide such authorization no later than May

24, 2019.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 17, 2019

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SUSAN ILLSTON

United States District Judge

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