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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MARIE WESTBROOK,

Plaintiff,

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IRIS CENTER WOMEN’S COUNSELING

AND RECOVERY SERVICES,

Defendant.

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No. C 04-05388 JSW

ORDER RE DISCOVERY

DISPUTE

The Court has received the parties’ joint letter brief outlining their discovery dispute

regarding the Defendants’s Request for Production (“RFP”) No. 20 and Defendant’s request to

have Plaintiff undergo an independent medical examination. Having reviewed the parties’

positions, the Court has determined that a hearing on this dispute is unnecessary.

In its RFP No. 20, Defendant seeks “[a]ll documents relating to any allegation of fraud

made against Plaintiff by any public entity or law enforcement agency.” Plaintiff offered to

supplement her response to Defendant’s RFP No. 20 to state whether she had ever been

convicted of fraud. With the exception of Plaintiff’s offer to supplement her response, the Court

DENIES Defendant’s request to compel production on its RFP No. 20 as overbroad. Plaintiff

shall supplement her response in accordance with her offer within fifteen days. 

Based Plaintiff’s representation that she is not claiming anything beyond garden variety

emotional distress damages and is not bringing a separate claim for emotional distress, the Court 

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DENIES Defendant’s request to have Plaintiff undergo an independent medical examination.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 6, 2005 

JEFFREY S. WHITE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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