Mayfield v. Orozco
United States District Court, E.D. California
July 20, 2016
JAMES JOSHUA MAYFIELD, JAMES ALLISON MAYFIELD, JR., and TERRI MAYFIELD, Plaintiffs,
v.
IVAN OROZCO, SHERIFF SCOTT JONES, JAMES LEWIS, RICK PATTISON, COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM, DR. GREGORY SOKOLOV, DR. ROBERT HALES, and Does 1-5, Defendants.
ORDER
ALLISON CLAIRE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
The
University of California Davis Health System and related
individual defendants (hereinafter “UC
Defendants”) filed a Motion to Compel Plaintiff’s
Conservator to Sign Authorization to Release Records from the
Social Security Administration. ECF Nos. 111, 120. The motion
came on for hearing before the undersigned on July 20, 2016.
Bianca Watts appeared for the UC Defendants and Acrivi
Coromelas appeared by telephone for plaintiffs. For the
reasons set forth below, the court will grant the motion.
BACKGROUND
Plaintiff
James Joshua Mayfield attempted suicide in the Sacramento
County Jail, where he was a pre-trial detainee, and survived
with quadriplegia and cognitive impairments. He and his wife
and son sue the County and various jail correctional staff,
as well as the UC Defendants and related jail psychiatric
staff, on grounds including failure to protect, failure to
provide medical care, and medical malpractice.
The
court has previously granted, in substantial part,
plaintiffs’ motion to compel production of documents
from defendants (ECF No. 100). The prior motion was granted
by an Order dated July 1, 2016, with the caveat that a
Protective Order must be submitted to and approved by the
Court prior to production of certain documents. ECF No. 117.
No proposed protective order has yet been submitted. At
hearing on the instant motion, counsel represented that a
draft is currently being circulated among the parties.
THE
MOTION TO COMPEL
On June
15, 2016, defendant requested consent from plaintiff’s
conservator to obtain records from the Social Security
Administration. The parties then met and conferred regarding
both the scope and the manner of the production. Plaintiffs
wished to receive the documents directly from the Social
Security Administration so they could, within a two week
period following receipt, redact confidential and sensitive
information and prepare a privilege log. Plaintiffs also
sought explicit agreement to their right to object to the
introduction of any such documents in litigation. The UC
Defendants did not accept these conditions, and brought the
motion now before the Court. The documents requested include:
1. Current month Social Security benefit;
2. Current Social Security Income payment amount;
3. Benefit or payment amounts from July 13, 2013 to the
production date;
4. Medicare entitlement from July 17, 2014 to the production
date;
5. Records of disability benefits comprising:
a. Applications
b. ...