Alper v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• finding that information in the defendant officers’ internal affairs and personnel files was relevant to the § 1983 claims against them as individuals
• ordering defendant officers to produce racial data from their past arrests as relevant to plaintiff’s claim of an unlawful stop
• granting in part a motion to quash a subpoena with respect to internal affairs and personnel files for nonparty officers because they were irrelevant to proving the claims against the named defendant officers
• finding township policies and procedures did not need to be produced because they were irrelevant when the township was no longer a party to the lawsuit and plaintiff provided nothing specific as to how these policies would be relevant to the other parties
• Magistrate Judges have wide discretion to manage discovery.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).