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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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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ALVETT FOBBS, ET AL.,

Plaintiff(s),

v.

NEW HAVEN UNIFIED SCHOOL

DISTRICT, ET AL.,

Defendant(s).

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Case No. C09-02723 PJH (JCS)

DISCOVERY ORDER

On April 23, 2010, a Discovery Conference was held. Pamela Price, Jeshawna Harrell, and

John Burris, appeared for Plaintiffs’. Rachel Wagner, counsel for Defendant City of Union City,

appeared. 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. As agreed to by the parties, and unless otherwise ordered by the Court, discovery

is limited to class certification issues until the hearing on any motion for class

certification.

2. As agreed to by the parties, 

a. Written discovery on class certification issues shall be completed on or before

June 11, 2010; and

b. Depositions on class certification issues commenced on April 23, 2010, and

shall be completed on or before July 7, 2010.

3. The police file and reports generated in connection with the murder of Vernon Eddins

shall be produced (except to the extent protected from disclosure by the attorney

client privilege or the attorney work product doctrine and listed on the defendants’

privilege log) and shall be governed by paragraph 6.1(a) of the Protective Order in

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United States District Court

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 this matter. Attorney John Burris is added to the list of counsel for plaintiffs who

may review that file under the Protective Order. In addition, the words “once their

depositions have been noticed and set” shall be deleted from the fourth sentence of

paragraph 6.1(a). Any requests to disclose any part of the file other than as provided

in paragraph 6.1(a) will be addressed on a case by case basis.

4. Plaintiffs shall disclose, on or before June 1, 2010, the names of all absent class

members whose declaration they intend to submit in support of class certification. 

Defendants may depose those absent class members on or before July 7, 2010. 

Plaintiffs may not submit, in connection with their motion for class certification, any

declarations by absent class members not disclosed to Defendants on or before June

1, 2010.

5. The parties shall meet and confer on the time period to be used for the production of

documents on the class certification issues. If the parties are unable to agree, the

production of documents for class certification issues only shall be limited to the time

period 2005 to the present. 

6. An updated discovery statement shall be due by May 12, 2010.

7. A further discovery conference is set for May 14, 2010, at 1:30 p.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 3, 2010

_______________________________

JOSEPH C. SPERO

United States Magistrate Judge

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