Borges
Borges v. County of Mendocino
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ANN MARIE BORGES, et al., Case No. 20-cv-04537-SI
Plaintiffs,
ORDER RE: DISCOVERY
v. Re: Dkt. No. 90 COUNTY OF MENDOCINO, Defendant.
12 The parties have submitted a discovery dispute regarding the adequacy of plaintiffs’ responses to the County’s requests for admissions and interrogatories, as well as whether plaintiffs are required to respond to the County’s second set of special interrogatories. The Court has reviewed the discovery requests and plaintiffs’ responses, and rules as follows: 1. For any requests for admission where plaintiffs responded “unable to admit or deny,” plaintiffs shall provide amended responses that “state in detail why the answering party cannot truthfully admit or deny it.” It is improper to simply respond “unable to admit or deny.” See generally Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 36(a)(4); Asea Inc. v. Southern Pac. Transp. Co., 669 F.2d 1242, 1245-46 (9th Cir. 1981). Plaintiffs are advised that…