Batiste

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA EUREKA DIVISION 7 DAVID BATISTE, Case No. 22-cv-01188-HSG (RMI)

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE: DISCOVERY DISPUTE

v. Re: Dkt. No. 59 CITY OF RICHMOND, et al., Defendants.

13 Now pending before the court is a discovery dispute that has been adequately briefed (dkt. 59); moreover, the Parties appeared for oral argument on April 11, 2023 (dkt. 62). At its core, the dispute boils down to the fact that Plaintiff (a public employee who has brought harassment and hostile work environment claims) has propounded such overly-broad and, at times irrelevant, deposition topics as to make it impossible for his public entity employer to designate and prepare any reasonable number of Rule 30(b)(6) deposition witnesses. See generally Ltr. Br. (dkt. 59) at 1- 6. The Parties have presented their dispute in the form of twelve “subjects” (as Defendant calls them), or “topics” (in Plaintiff’s verbiage) – which, essentially, constitute a series of…