Can a police officer defend a civil rights action against a defendant in a civil civil rights case under discovery?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Cathey v. City of Vallejo, No. 2:14-cv-01749-JAM-AC (E.D. Cal. 2015):
of officers defending civil rights actions, while containing sensitive information, are within the scope of discovery.") (citing Soto v. City of Concord, 162 F.R.D. 603, 614-15 (N.D. Cal. 1995)). Relevant information is not limited to complaints regarding handcuffs. Accordingly, defendants' relevance and overbreadth arguments go too far.
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