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Nature of Suit Code: 445
Nature of Suit: Americans with Disabilities Act - Employment
Cause of Action: 28:794 Rehabilitation Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

MATTHEW BONZANI, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

ERIC K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans 

Affairs; SCOTT HUNDAHL, M.D., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:11-cv-0007-EFB 

ORDER AFTER HEARING 

 On March 5, 2014, the court heard defendants’ motion to modify the scheduling order and 

for imposition of exclusionary sanctions pursuant to Rule 37(c)(1), ECF No. 83, defendants’ 

motion for reconsideration of the court’s January 8, 2014 order, ECF No. 85, and defendants’ 

motion to compel discovery responses, ECF No. 87. 

 For the reasons stated on the record, defendants’ motion to modify the scheduling order is 

granted; defendants’ motion for exclusionary sanctions is granted in part to the extent that 

plaintiff is precluded from introducing at trial any evidence relating to emotional distress that was 

not produced during discovery; defendants’ motion for reconsideration is denied; and defendants’ 

motion to compel is denied.1

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 Although the court found that the parties had failed to adequately meet and confer in 

relation to defendants’ motion to compel, and therefore declined to address each discovery 

request in detail, the court used the opportunity to clarify its January 8, 2014 order that reopened 

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 At the hearing, the court also addressed defendants’ request for an order awarding 

sanctions against plaintiff in the amount of $6,149.75 pursuant to the court’s January 8, 2014 

order. See ECF Nos. 80, 82, 84. For the reasons stated on the record, the court finds that the 

amount requested is reasonable. Accordingly, plaintiff shall pay defendants $6,149.75 for the 

costs and reasonable expenses incurred in bringing their November 20, 2013 motion for Rule 

37(c)(1) sanctions. This sum shall be paid to defendants on or before October 20, 2014. 

 So Ordered. 

DATED: March 6, 2014. 

 

discovery. The court made clear that defendants were entitled to discover evidence relating to 

plaintiff’s retirement benefits, including documents created after the original August 31, 2012 

discovery cutoff date. 

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