Price v. Leflore County Detention Center Public Trust

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma

2014 WL 3672874 (2014)

Relevant factsFree

After her son died in Leflore County jail custody, Loretta Price (plaintiff) sued the jail (defendant) and an employee for maintaining an unconstitutional policy of denying inmates medical treatment, and requested all written medical-treatment complaints for the prior ten years, information stored only within each individual inmate's file; the jail did not respond, and Price moved to compel production.

IssueFree

Whether, under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26, discovery may be limited when the burden or expense of the proposed discovery outweighs its likely benefit.

Holding & reasoning

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Procedural history, concurrence & dissent

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