Silloway
Silloway v. City and County of San Francisco
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
KRISTEN SILLOWAY, et al., Case No. 20-cv-07400-RS (AGT)
Plaintiffs,
DISCOVERY ORDER
v. Re: Dkt. No. 119
CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN
FRANCISCO,
Defendant.
By June 12, 2025, plaintiffs must identify the nurses who plaintiffs contend CCSF prevented from working a regularly scheduled shift, involuntarily sent home from a shift, scheduled for fewer hours than their full-time equivalency, or denied the opportunity to work a regularly scheduled shift pursuant to the 2024–2027 MOU. For each nurse identified, plain- tiffs must provide the date of each specific instance recalled. The above discovery is relevant to a material factual issue: “whether staff nurses are guaranteed the opportunity to work the hours corresponding to their full-time equivalency every week.” Silloway v. City & Cnty. of San Francisco, 117 F.4th 1070, 1077 (9th Cir. 2024). Plaintiffs’ arguments opposing this discovery are not convincing. First, plaintiffs insist that the discovery will be too burdensome because counsel will need to contact all 208 opt-in staff nurses to identify which of them were involuntarily sent home or denied the opportunity…