McAleenan
Doe 1 v. McAleenan
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
I. BACKGROUND
21 On May 27, 2020, Judge DeMarchi issued an order ruling on the confidentiality 22 designations of certain documents and deposition testimony Defendants produced in discovery. 23 See Order Re Discovery Dispute Re Defendants’ HC-AEO Designations, ECF 343. She found that 24 some of Defendants’ confidentiality designations were warranted at least for purposes of discovery 25 and that some documents did not warrant those designations. Id. 1. Defendants then filed a motion 26 for relief from Judge DeMarchi’s order with this Court, objecting to sixteen of Judge DeMarchi’s 27 designation denials. See Mot., ECF 346. In denying that motion on June 18, 2020, this Court stated, The Court, however, recognizes that Defendants may have a stronger jurisdictional discovery argument now because the Court denied Plaintiffs’ motion for leave to add the FBI as a defendant. See ECF 357. Because this fact was not before Judge DeMarchi when she ruled on 3 Defendants’ argument, the Court cannot reconsider it here. If Defendants would like to re- assert their jurisdictional discovery argument, Defendants may raise the issue with Judge DeMarchi in a subsequent…