Roderico LeCount Yates v. Jaymie Cabrera

Summary

The United States District Court for the District of Nevada denied Plaintiff Roderico LeCount Yates’s motion to compel discovery. The court found that production responses had been provided, rendering that portion moot, and concluded that interrogatories concerning prior complaints and disciplinary actions and a request for admission about delayed medication were not relevant or discoverable.

Holdings

1. The requests for production portion of the motion to compel was denied as moot because Defendant represented that responses had been provided.
2. Information concerning Defendant's past complaints and disciplinary actions was not relevant and discoverable in this action alleging deliberate indifference to medical needs.
3. The request for an admission that medicine is frequently provided late at High Desert State Prison was not relevant and discoverable in this case.

Questions Presented

1. Whether Plaintiff's motion to compel responses to requests for production should be granted when Defendant represented that the responses had been provided.
2. Whether information concerning Defendant's past complaints and disciplinary actions was relevant and discoverable in this deliberate-indifference action.
3. Whether an admission concerning the frequency of late medication delivery at High Desert State Prison was relevant and discoverable.

Disposition

other