United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, 2023

Mollica v. County of Sacramento

Mollica v. County of Sacramento
United States District Court for the Eastern District of California · Decided April 11, 2023
Mollica v. County of Sacramento

Trial Court Opinion

7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Lia D. Mollica, No. 2:19-cv-02017-KJM-DB 11 Plaintiff, ORDER 12 v. 13 County of Sacramento, et al., 4 Defendants.

16 Plaintiff has submitted Exhibits N, O and P in support of her opposition to defendants’ | motion for summary judgment, which the court will address in a separate order. These exhibits | contain third parties’ medical information and other private information. For the reasons below, | the court strikes Exhibits N, O and P and directs plaintiff to refile the Declaration of Mark | Merin and the Exhibits attached to the declaration at ECF No. 80-3.

21 At hearing on the motion for summary judgment, the court informed parties it would not | rely on Exhibits N and P in deciding the motion. Plaintiff attached thousands of pages of inmate | grievances and responses in Exhibit N without directing the court to specific grievances or pages | that are relevant and related to medical issues similar to plaintiff's. See Merin Decl. ¥ 15, ECF | No. 80-3. Exhibit P provides a log of health-related grievances. Merin Decl. § 17. The court is | not obliged “to comb the record to find some reason to deny a motion for summary judgment,” | see Carmen vy. San Francisco Unified Sch. Dist., 237 F.3d 1026, 1029 (9th Cir. 2001), and | declines to do so here. Accordingly, Exhibits N and P are stricken from the record.

1 | See Fed. R. Civ. P 12(f); Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. v. Hercules, Inc., 146 F.3d 1071, 1074 | (9th Cir. 1998) (courts may strike filings and pleadings under its “inherent power to control [its] | docket’).

4 At hearing, the court also directed plaintiff to submit a redacted version of Exhibit O, | which counsel now has filed. See ECF No. 89. The unredacted version is still available on the | public docket, in the same document as Exhibit P, at ECF No. 80-3. Accordingly, the Clerk of | Court is directed to strike the filing at ECF No. 80-3 and the entirety of ECF Nos. 81-84 | (Ex. N). Plaintiff is directed to refile the Declaration of Mark Merin, ECF No. 80-3, which may | attach all the other exhibits (1.e., Exhibits A through M and Q through S), within 7 days of the | filed date of this order.

1] IT IS SO ORDERED.

12 DATED: April 11, 2023.

CHIEF ED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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