Gauthier

MEMORANDUM **

Debra Gauthier appeals the district court’s entry of judgment in favor of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (“Metro”) following a jury trial that resulted in a verdict for the defense; the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Metro on her due process claim; and the district court’s award of $75,000 in attorneys’ fees to Metro. We affirm.

(1) The magistrate judge determined that the interests of the Diversity and Equality Board (DEB) in the confidentiality of its deliberative processes justified a protective order against discovery. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(c). The district court has broad discretion to issue protective orders, and we review its decisions deferentially. See Portland Gen. Elec. Co. v. U.S. Bank Trust Nat’l Ass’n, 218 F.3d 1085, 1089 (9th Cir.2000); see also Donoghue v. County of Orange, 848 F.2d 926, 931 (9th Cir.1987). Still and all, the order issued in this case is problematic. See Univ. of Pa. v. EEOC, 493 U.S. 182, 191-94 , 110 S.Ct. 577, 583-85 , 107 L.Ed.2d 571 (1990). But even if the order was improper, on this record Gauthier is not entitled to reversal of the judgment.

First, we are constrained to note that Gauthier did…