Perkins
Perkins v. City of Modesto
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 JASON B. PERKINS, No. 1:19-cv-00126-NONE-EPG 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION
FOR RECONSIDERATION
14 CITY OF MODESTO, et al., (Doc. No. 74) 15 Defendants.
16 17 Plaintiff Jason B. Perkins seeks reconsideration of a discovery ruling designating as 18 confidential certain internal affairs (“IA”) files belonging to defendants City of Modesto (“City”) 19 and Modesto Police Department (“Modesto PD”). For the reasons explained below, plaintiff’s 20 motion for reconsideration will be denied. 21 BACKGROUND 22 This is a police shooting case in which the court previously denied plaintiff’s motion for 23 summary judgment. (Doc. No. 68 at 3–6 (providing a factual summary).) The court will not 24 repeat the facts of the case here since the parties are quite familiar with them. 25 During discovery, plaintiff sought Modesto PD’s IA files. (Doc. No. 74 at 6.) The parties 26 entered into a stipulated protective order…