Pickard
Pickard v. Department of Justice
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
10 WILLIAM LEONARD PICKARD, Case No. 06-cv-00185-CRB (NC) 11 Plaintiff, REPORT & RECOMMENDATION TO v. DISMISS CASE 13 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF Re: ECF 357 JUSTICE, Defendant. 16 This matter arises out of Plaintiff William Leonard Pickard’s Freedom of Information Act request that Defendant United States Department of Justice produce certain documents from the Drug Enforcement Agency regarding Gordon Todd Skinner, a confidential informant. On February 27, 2020, Judge Charles R. Breyer referred this matter to this Court for all further proceedings. ECF 329. On June 17, 2020, the Court ordered the government to produce all of the materials published by order of the court in the prior Kansas case and an explanatory chart with a corresponding Vaughn index by July 17, 2020. ECF 339. Pickard was given until August 17, 2020, to file a motion challenging the sufficiency of the government’s…