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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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Order on Motions To Compel (2:05 CV-00345-DFL-PAN) 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THOMAS PRATT

Plaintiff,

v.

California Board of

Pharmacy, et al

Defendants. 

CASE NO. 05 CV 0345-DFL-PAN

[Proposed]

ORDER ON MOTION TO COMPEL

Date Heard: 12/9/2005

Courtroom: 25

Judge: Hon. Peter A. Nowinski

Plaintiff’s motions to compel against defendants

Applied Measurement Professionals and defendants Virginia

Herold and Patricia Harris came on for continued hearing at

11:00 a.m. on December 9, 2005, the Honorable United States

Magistrate Judge Peter A. Nowinski presiding. All parties

appeared through counsel of record. After considering the

papers filed in connection with the motions to compel and

argument thereon and after reviewing the June 2002, January

2003 and June 2003 California Board of Pharmacy examinations

and answer keys thereto, the court makes the following

orders.

The courts grants plaintiff’s motion as to defendants

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Order on Motions To Compel (2:05 CV-00345-DFL-PAN) 

Patricia Harris and Virginia Herold to compel in limited

part subject to the protective orders discussed below. The

court orders that plaintiff be provided with and be allowed

to view the essay/short answer questions and his answers

thereto that were graded as incorrect on the June 2002

California Board of Pharmacy Examination as well as the

portions of the answer keys as to only those questions

graded as incorrect on plaintiff’s June 2002 examination. 

In this regard, the essay/short answer portion of

plaintiff’s June 2002 California Board of Pharmacy

Examination booklet and the answer key to that portion of

the aforementioned June 2002 examination shall be redacted

and provided to plaintiff as specified above. The court

issues a protective order so that except as specified above,

no other information from the June 2002, January 2003 and

June 2003 short answer/essay portion of the California Board

of Pharmacy and answer keys thereto shall be disclosed to or

made known to plaintiff. 

The court issues a further protective order based upon

the request of counsel for defendants Harris and Herold so

that the entire short answer/essay portion of plaintiff’s

test booklet for the June 2002, January 2003 and June 2003

California Board of Pharmacy examinations and the answer

keys thereto shall be disclosed to Mr. William Saacke,

counsel for plaintiff who can disclose those materials only

to his expert witnesses in this case. Counsel for

defendants, including Applied Measurement Professionals, may

also have a copy of these examinations materials as well as

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Order on Motions To Compel (2:05 CV-00345-DFL-PAN) 

their retained experts in this matter.

In all other respects plaintiff’s motions to compel

against all defendants were denied.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 6, 2006.

 /s/ Peter A. Nowinski_______

Peter A. Nowinski,

United States Magistrate Judge

Submitted by:

BILL LOCKYER, Attorney General

 of the State of California

RICHARD ROJO, Lead Supervising 

Deputy Attorney General

D. L. HELFAT,

 Deputy Attorney General

By:_________________________________

 D. L. HELFAT, DAG

Attorneys for Defendants Herold and Harris

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