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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Civil Rights Act

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07cv0065

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAM BEDWELL, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C., etc.,

et al.,

Defendants.

 

 

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Case No. 07-CV-0065-WQH (JMA)

ORDER CLARIFYING NOVEMBER 12,

2008 ORDER

On November 12, 2008, the Court issued an Order Following

Telephonic Case Management Conference which set forth, inter

alia, the following:

Plaintiff advised the Court that she and Defendants’

counsel, Matthew Dente, Esq., had met and conferred

regarding written discovery propounded by Defendants

upon Plaintiff, and that she had agreed to provide

substantive responses to all outstanding discovery with

the exception of two items: (a) the school(s) in Texas

to which she had submitted applications and (b) the

employment positions she had sought in Texas. After

Defendants’ counsel, Julie Dunne, Esq., who participated in the conference, agreed to limit the time frame

of the information sought to 2004, Plaintiff agreed to

provide responses.

Nov. 12, 2008 Order at 2.

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On December 22, 2008, Plaintiff Suzanne Moreno and Defendants’ counsel, Julie Dunne, Esq. and Matthew Dente, Esq.,

participated in a joint telephone call with the undersigned’s law

clerk during which Plaintiff requested clarification of the above

language. Plaintiff explained that Defendants had served a

subpoena for records upon the University of Arkansas for records

pertaining to her attendance at the University’s law school

during the 2005-06 school year. The subpoena was issued out of

the Western District of Arkansas on December 5, 2008. Plaintiff

believes that the above language precludes Defendants from

serving such a subpoena because it seeks information (1) from a

school outside of Texas and (2) relating to a time period outside

of 2004. Defendants disagree with this interpretation, and

contend that the above language relates only to the parties’

resolution of a previous discovery issue concerning different

discovery requests served by Defendants upon Plaintiff, and the

Court’s confirmation thereof. 

Defendants are correct. The above-cited portion of the

Court’s November 12 Order pertained only to the discovery dispute

before the Court at that time. The Court did not rule, with

respect to Plaintiff’s school records, that only information

pertaining to schools in Texas during the 2004 time frame was

relevant. The Order does not preclude Defendants from serving

additional discovery requests or third party subpoenas which seek

relevant information, even if such discovery falls outside of the

scope of the agreement reached with respect to the previous

written discovery served upon Plaintiff. In other words, the

compromise reached between the parties on the prior written

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discovery, and the Court’s confirmation thereof, does not prevent

Defendants from seeking additional discovery of relevant information.

Although it is for the court out of which the subpoena was

issued, i.e., the Western District of Arkansas, to resolve any

objections to the subpoena (see Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(c)(3)), the

Court here is satisfied that the subject subpoena seeks information relevant to the claims and defenses in this case, in accordance with Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(1). 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: December 22, 2008

Jan M. Adler

U.S. Magistrate Judge

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