Brito

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 Victor Manuel Brito Sanchez, No. 2:18-CV-00097-KJM-DB 12 Plaintiff, ORDER 13 Vv. 14 William P. Barr, United States Attorney General, 15 Defendant. 16 17 In its October 20, 2020 Final Pretrial Conference, the court set this matter for a virtual 18 | bench trial on November 19 and agreed to resolve defendant’s motion in limine filed before trial 19 | by written order. Final Pretrial Order, ECF No. 38. The court, having considered the parties’ 20 | briefs denies defendant’s motion, for the reasons explained below. 21 | I. BACKGROUND 22 This court previously set forth the factual and procedural history of this matter in its 23 | July 15, 2020 order on defendants’ prior motion for summary judgment; the court incorporates 24 | that history by reference here. Order, ECF No. 27, at 2-3. Defendant now moves in limine to 25 | exclude plaintiff's expert witness. See Mot., ECF No. 36; Reply, ECF No. 41. Plaintiff opposes 26 |…