Snipes
Snipes v. Wilkie
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 ALLISON SNIPES, Case No. 18-cv-03259-TSH
8 Plaintiff,
DISCOVERY ORDER
9 v. Re: Dkt. No. 89 10 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and ROBERT WILKIE, Secretary of the United 11 States Department of Veterans Affairs,
12 Defendants.
13 I. INTRODUCTION 14 In this Title VII employment discrimination case, the parties have filed a joint discovery 15 letter in which the government moves to compel Plaintiff Allison Snipes to produce complete, 16 unredacted copies of the treatment notes from her therapist, Zora Kolkey. ECF No. 89. Having 17 considered the parties’ positions and relevant legal authority, the Court DENIES the government’s 18 motion for the following reasons. 19 II. BACKGROUND 20 Snipes grew up in the Pentecostal faith and considers church and family the two most 21 important aspects of her life. Third Am. Compl. ¶ 14, ECF No. 44. She alleges her former 22 supervisor at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Elizabeth…