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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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[Proposed] Order Concerning Discovery of Audio Tape and Transcript Segdaghatpour v. CHP

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EDMUND G. BROWN JR.

Attorney General of the State of California

TOM BLAKE, State Bar No. 51885

JOHN P. DEVINE, State Bar No. 170773 

Deputy Attorney General

455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000

San Francisco, CA 94102-7004

Telephone: (415) 703-5506

Fax: (415) 703-5480

Email: Tom.Blake@doj.ca.gov

Attorneys for Defendants State of California, Acting

by and Through Department of California Highway

Patrol, and California Highway Patrol Officer J.

Schatmeier and California Highway Patrol Officer J.

Soto

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

ZAHRA SEDAGHATPOUR,

Plaintiff,

v.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, et al.,

Defendants.

C 07-01802-WHA

[Proposed] ORDER

CONCERNING DISCOVERY

OF AUDIOTAPE AND

TRANSCRIPT

Defendants’ motion for protective order and plaintiff’s cross-motion to compel discovery of

an audio tape of an interview of plaintiff by California Highway Patrol Sergeant D. Lecce were

heard on August 15, 2006. Plaintiff appeared through her counsel, Hunter Pyle. Defendants

appeared through their counsel, Deputy Attorneys General John Devine and Tom Blake. 

Having reviewed the parties’ papers filed in support and in opposition and having heard

argument of counsel, the court orders:

The audio tape in question, that of an interview of plaintiff on the night of September 12-13,

2006, and a transcript thereof prepared by defendants, shall be provided to counsel for plaintiff

on the day following the taking of plaintiff’s initial deposition, such initial deposition to be taken

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as previously ordered for a period of four hours or less without prejudice to the defendants’ right

to depose plaintiff pursuant to Rule 30, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 

Further, the court having previously allowed the depositions of the two individual

defendants (Officer Jon Schatmeier and Officer John Soto) to be taken after the plaintiff’s

deposition for a total of four hours or less without prejudice to the plaintiff’s right to take further

depositions pursuant to Rule 30, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the court orders that:

1) From August 15, 2007 until the conclusion of the parties’ initial depositions, counsel for

the respective parties shall not provide the parties with police reports, statements, interview

reports, the complaint, the amended complaint, or other materials concerning the substantive

events of the September 12 and September 13, 2006 of which plaintiff complains. 

2) Counsel shall instruct their respective clients not to make any further review of police

reports, statements, interview reports, the complaint, the amended complaint, or other such

materials before their initial depositions are completed. 

3) Counsel shall not refresh the parties’ recollections of the events of September 12 and

September 13, 2006 by reference to deposition testimony, police reports, statements, interview

reports, the complaint, the amended complaint, or other such materials, and shall instruct their 

clients not to refresh their recollections of the substantive events of September 12 and September

13, 2006 by discussion among themselves or with others before their initial depositions are

completed.

4) Further, it being in the interest of justice to obtain the unvarnished recollection of the

parties, the court orders that the parties shall not attend the initial deposition of any other party

taken pursuant to the court’s order allowing each side an initial four hours of depositions without

prejudice. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Date: 

 

WILLIAM ALSUP

United States District Judge

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August 27, 2007

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge William Alsup

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