Amy

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA EUREKA DIVISION 7 “AMY,” et al., Case No. 19-cv-02184-PJH (RMI)

Plaintiffs,

ORDER ON DEFENDANT’S REQUEST

v. TO COMPEL DISCOVERY

RESPONSES

RANDALL STEVEN CURTIS, Re: Dkt. No. 160 Defendant.

13 Currently pending before the court is a jointly-filed letter brief (dkt. 160) through which Defendant seeks to compel the production of “four requests aimed at obtaining documents Plaintiffs exchanged with members of Congress with respect to their years-long efforts to have Congress amend the statute [pertaining to a civil remedy and damages for persons depicted in child pornography], and then to amend it again.” Ltr. Br. (dkt. 160) at 1. Plaintiffs respond, inter alia, that they do not possess any such documents. Id. at 4. Accordingly, for the reasons discussed below, the most significant of which is that Plaintiffs cannot produce that which they do not possess, Defendant’s request is denied.1 …