Ghaemmaghami v. Dignity Health

Summary

The United States District Court for the District of Arizona resolves three discovery disputes in Ghaemmaghami’s action against Dignity Health concerning paid time off for physicians. The court requires Dignity to provide contact information for all physicians in the relevant period, directs the parties to propose a deadline for production responsive to RFPs 8–10, and requires plaintiff’s counsel to identify which of 34 physicians it continues to represent.

Holdings

1. Dignity Health must provide contact information and discovery responses concerning all Dignity physicians during the requested relevant period, rather than limiting the responses to physicians employed by Dignity Health Medical Group.
2. The parties must confer and file a joint proposed deadline for completing Dignity Health's production responding to RFPs 8 through 10; if they cannot agree, they may submit separate proposed deadlines.
3. Plaintiff's counsel must identify which of the 34 physicians on whose behalf counsel previously sent a demand letter counsel continues to represent.

Questions Presented

1. Whether Dignity Health's discovery responses could be limited to physicians employed by Dignity Health Medical Group rather than all Dignity physicians during the relevant period.
2. Whether the court should impose a deadline for Dignity Health's production responding to requests for production 8 through 10.
3. Whether plaintiff's counsel had to identify which of the 34 physicians named in the prelitigation demand letter counsel continued to represent.

Disposition

other