City of Sacramento v. Wells Fargo & Co.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 CITY OF SACRAMENTO, No. 2:18-cv-00416-KJM-AC 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER 14 WELLS FARGO & CO., and WELLS

FARGO BANK, N.A.,

15 Defendants. 16

17 18 Defendants Wells Fargo & Co. and Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (“collectively “Wells 19 Fargo”) move to phase discovery. Mot., ECF No. 52. The City of Sacramento opposes. Opp’n, 20 ECF No. 56. Wells Fargo has replied. Reply, ECF No. 58. The court heard oral argument from 21 the parties on March 6, 2020. At the hearing, Robert Peck and Yosef Peretz appeared for the City 22 of Sacramento; Olivia Kelman, Paul Hancock and Edward Sangster appeared for Wells Fargo. 23 The novel coronavirus pandemic has intervened since hearing, but the court now resolves the 24 motion and DENIES it as explained below. 25 I. BACKGROUND 26 Plaintiff City of Sacramento (“City”) sues Wells Fargo for violations of the federal 27 Fair Housing Act (FHA) and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA). Plaintiff 28 alleges that since…