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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights (Employment Discrimination)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FANG-YUH HSIEH,

Plaintiff,

v.

R. JAMES

NICHOLSON,Secretary, Dept.

Of Veterans Affairs, and

PHILIP LAVORI,

Defendant(s).

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No. C06-5281 PJH (BZ) 

ORDER FOR FURTHER DISCOVERY

 Before the Court is plaintiff’s Request For

Reconsideration Of Court Order Dated August 23, 2007, Denying

Plaintiff’s Motion To Compel Production Of Documents. The

court treats this as a motion to compel further production of

documents. After considering the moving papers and the

arguments of the parties, it appears that defendants have

failed to produce documents that should have been produced

earlier either through initial voluntary disclosure,

supplemental disclosure, or in response to plaintiff’s

discovery requests, despite earlier court orders. 

Plaintiff’s motion is GRANTED. Pursuant to FRCP 37

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(a)(2)(B), (3) and (4) defendants are hereby ORDERED to

produce the following documents no later than January 30,

2008 to the extent they have not already produced them:

1. All documents which relate or refer to plaintiff’s 2000

e-mail to Dr. Lavori complaining about discriminatory

treatment.

2. All documents which relate or refer to plaintiff’s

response to the 2001 VA R&D survey distributed to

plaintiff by Dr. Davis Ronis.

3. All documents which relate or refer to plaintiff’s

response to the VA Palo Alto Health Care System Survey

distributed to plaintiff in 2001.

4. All documents which relate or refer to the decision to

not renew or terminate plaintiff in September 2001. 

5. All documents which relate or refer to the hiring of the

“younger female statistical programmer” who took over

plaintiff’s position. 

6. All documents which relate or refer to the decision not

to hire plaintiff for the statistical programmer

position plaintiff applied for in 2005, including all

documents which relate or refer to the decision to hire

the candidate that was chosen, and to the selection of

candidates to interview for the position. 

These documents may be produced with personal identifying

information of other employees abstracted. If such

information becomes relevant, plaintiff may apply to the

court for relief.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that by January 30, 2008, Ms. Wang

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file a declaration certifying that she personally supervised

the search for documents, that she is satisfied the search

was thorough and adequate, and that defendants have produced

all documents which respond to the aforementioned requests. 

Dated: January 24, 2008

 Bernard Zimmerman

United States Magistrate Judge

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