Dimry
Dimry v. Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CHARLES DIMRY, Case No. 19-cv-05360-JSC
Plaintiff,
ORDER RE: CONFLICT DISCOVERY
v. DISPUTE
BERT BELL/PETE ROZELLE NFL Re: Dkt. No. 31 PLAYER RETIREMENT PLAN, et al., 11 Defendants.
12 Plaintiff is a former player in the National Football League. He challenges the decision of the Retirement Board of the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan (the “Plan”) to deny him total and permanent disability benefits under the Plan and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”). Now pending before the Court is a joint discovery dispute letter regarding Plaintiff’s demand that the Plan produce certain documents. (Dkt. No. 31.) The letter is a follow-up to a previous letter (Dkt. No. 23) and hearing the Court held in February 2020. (Dkt. No. 27.) Plaintiff seeks:
Unredacted copies of the contracts between the NFL and Steven Meier, M.D., James Chen, M.D., and Allen W. Jackson, M.D., and all …