Filed: May 03, 2019
Latest Update: May 03, 2019
Summary: ORDER ON JOINT DISCOVERY LETTER RE: AIMS REPORTS Re: Dkt. No. 560 DONNA M. RYU , Magistrate Judge . The court has received the parties' April 22, 2019 joint discovery letter in which Defendants move to compel Plaintiffs' production of reports of security incidents, known as "AIMS reports," for all Planned Parenthood affiliates for the time period January 2014 through December 2016. [Docket No. 560.] This matter is appropriate for resolution without a hearing. Civ. L.R. 7-1(b). For the foll
Summary: ORDER ON JOINT DISCOVERY LETTER RE: AIMS REPORTS Re: Dkt. No. 560 DONNA M. RYU , Magistrate Judge . The court has received the parties' April 22, 2019 joint discovery letter in which Defendants move to compel Plaintiffs' production of reports of security incidents, known as "AIMS reports," for all Planned Parenthood affiliates for the time period January 2014 through December 2016. [Docket No. 560.] This matter is appropriate for resolution without a hearing. Civ. L.R. 7-1(b). For the follo..
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ORDER ON JOINT DISCOVERY LETTER RE: AIMS REPORTS
Re: Dkt. No. 560
DONNA M. RYU, Magistrate Judge.
The court has received the parties' April 22, 2019 joint discovery letter in which Defendants move to compel Plaintiffs' production of reports of security incidents, known as "AIMS reports," for all Planned Parenthood affiliates for the time period January 2014 through December 2016. [Docket No. 560.] This matter is appropriate for resolution without a hearing. Civ. L.R. 7-1(b). For the following reasons, the motion is granted in part.
Planned Parenthood affiliates report security incidents to Planned Parenthood Federation of America ("PPFA") in the form of AIMS reports. Jt. Letter 1. Plaintiffs state that they have produced AIMS reports for the nine Plaintiff affiliates for the 12 months following the first release of Defendant Center for Medical Progress's videos in July 2015, i.e. for the period July 2015 through July 2016. [Docket No. 580.] Defendants move to compel the production of AIMS reports for a longer time period and for additional affiliates in order to disprove Plaintiffs' allegation of a "dramatic increase in the threats, harassment, and criminal activities targeting . . . Planned Parenthood health centers" following the July 2015 release of the videos and defeat Plaintiffs' claim for damages related to increased security costs. Jt. Letter 1 (quoting First Am. Compl. ¶ 142), 3. Neither side addresses the proportionality of the requested discovery in the joint letter.
The court orders the following: by May 13, 2019, Plaintiffs shall produce all AIMS reports for the nine Plaintiff affiliates for the time period January 1, 2015 through July 31, 2016, to the extent such reports have not already been produced. Defendants may identify five non-Plaintiff affiliates for which Plaintiffs must produce all AIMS reports for the same time period, January 1, 2015 through July 31, 2016. Defendants must identify the additional five non-Plaintiff affiliates to Plaintiffs by 9:00 a.m. on May 6, 2019. Plaintiffs must produce the AIMS reports for those five non-Plaintiff affiliates by May 13, 2019. Plaintiffs may make any necessary redactions to the documents consistent with their prior production of AIMS reports.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
