Lewis
Lewis v. CoreCivic of Tennessee, LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 Marva LEWIS, Case No.: 21-cv-01385-JAH-BGS
Plaintiff,
ORDER FOR IN-PERSON
v. DEPOSITION OF DR. CARROLL
CORECIVIC OF TENNESSEE, LLC, et [ECF 49] al., 13 Defendant.
15 On September 6, 2023, the parties contacted the Court with a dispute about 16 whether Defendant’s expert witness, Dr. Matthew F. Carroll, must submit to an in-person 17 deposition as provided in the deposition notice served by Plaintiff or whether he may be 18 deposed remotely as Defendant has requested. For the following reasons, the Court 19 ORDERS that Plaintiff’s deposition of Dr. Carroll occur in person. 20 The court may on motion order that a deposition be taken by telephone or other 21 remote means. Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(b)(4). “The Court’s analysis proceeds in two steps: 22 (1) the proponent must advance a legitimate reason for seeking a remote deposition; and 23 (2) if the movant articulates a legitimate reason, then the burden shifts to the opposing 24 party to make a particularized…