Whitney

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RYAN MCMAHON, Case No. 2:23-cv-1972-KJM-JDP (PS) Plaintiff, v. ORDER AND FINDINGS AND

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JOHN WHITNEY, et al.,

Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff, initially represented by counsel but now proceeding pro se, brought this case alleging that his personnel records at the Vallejo Police Department were breached and released to a local newspaper. ECF No. 1. Pending are his motions to strike, ECF No. 52, and for sanctions, ECF No. 56. The motion to strike seeks to strike documents that defendant John Whitney’s former counsel filed in an opposition to plaintiff’s motion to disqualify counsel. ECF No. 52; see ECF No. 66. Plaintiff argues that these documents were privileged insofar as they are confidential personnel records and include attorney-client communications between plaintiff and Whitney’s former counsel, Alison Berry Wilkinson, who previously represented plaintiff in a separate matter. The relevant…