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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

STEVEN R. EDWARDS,

Plaintiff,

v.

A. DESFOSSES, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:13-cv-01013-SAB-PC

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S

REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION OF 

VIDEO RECORDING

Plaintiff filed a motion in limine seeking to compel Defendants to produce a video 

recording of the front entrance of the A-Yard Program Office at Pleasant Valley State Prison on 

July 17, 2012. (ECF No. 68.) Defendants opposed the motion on the grounds that the video 

does not exist, and that Plaintiff did not timely move to compel the production of the video 

recording before the close of discovery, which was April 10, 2015. (ECF No. 80 at 3.) On 

March 16, 2016, the Court issued its order regarding the parties’ motions in limine but reserved 

its ruling of Plaintiff’s motion to produce the video recording until the Court received a 

declaration regarding the existence of the video recording at issue. (ECF No. 97 at 4.) 

On March 24, 2016, Defendants filed with the Court the declaration of K. Geringer, the 

Litigation Coordinator at Pleasant Valley State Prison. (ECF No. 111.) The declaration 

establishes that K. Geringer researched the existence of video recordings of A-Yard at Pleasant 

Valley State Prison and the A-Yard Program Office made on July 17, 2012. No video recordings 

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of A-Yard at Pleasant Valley State Prison and the A-Yard Program Office were made on July 17, 

2012, because no video cameras captured images in those areas. (Geringer Decl. ¶ 2.) 

Because a video recording of the A-Yard Program Office at Pleasant Valley State Prison 

on July 17, 2012, does not exist, the Court cannot compel the production of it. Plaintiff’s motion 

for the production of the video recording of the A-Yard Program Office at Pleasant Valley State 

Prison on July 17, 2012, is therefore DENIED.

 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 24, 2016 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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