Shiferaw

DISCUSSION

21 Plaintiff claims that the City’s Request for Proposals (“RFP”) bidding process for the 22 Center was nothing more than a “sham” intended to steer the Center to Mayor Breed’s political 23 allies and supporters. See (Dkt. No. 106 at 7.) In 2017, when the City cancelled the RFP bidding

1 The Individual Defendants are Mayor London Breed (“Mayor Breed”); Rev. Amos Brown (“Rev. Brown”); Joaquin Torres (“Torres”), Director of the Mayor’s Office of Workforce and Economic Development; Naomi Kelly (“Kelly”), the City Administrator; and San Francisco Supervisor Vallie Brown (“Supervisor Brown”). 2 Record citations are to material in the Electronic Case File (“ECF”); pinpoint citations are to the process, Mayor Breed was then the President of the Board of Supervisors. (Id. at 5.) Plaintiff alleges that she used this position to personally involve herself in the fate of the Center—before, during, and after the RFP process. (Id. at 7.) Both parties agree that Mayor Breed is a high-level official whose testimony invokes the “apex” deposition doctrine. (Id. at 3–4, 8.) 4 Legal Standard 5 The Court may limit discovery “to protect a party or…