Applegate
Applegate v. California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division BRIAN C. APPLEGATE, Case No. 19-cv-05448-LB
Plaintiff,
DISCOVERY ORDER
v. Re: ECF No. 101 CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF
CORRECTIONS & REHABILITATION,
15 Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION The court has an evidentiary hearing set for June 23, 2022, to resolve fact disputes about whether the plaintiff Brian Applegate, who is representing himself, exhausted administrative remedies for his claim that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) violated his requests for accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The parties dispute (1) the sufficiency of the CDCR’s responses to discovery propounded by the plaintiff’s former counsel in October 2021 and (2) the CDCR’s refusal to produce more discovery that Mr. Applegate requested in March 2022. The court can decide the dispute without oral argument. N.D. Cal. Civ. L. R. 7-1(b). The court generally denies Mr.…