Santa Clarita Organization for Planning & the Environment v. Castaic Lake Water Agency

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• reasoning that abuse of discretion 12 occurs if “discovery is indispensable to a fair, rounded, development of the material facts”
• rejecting request for further discovery regarding possible prosecutorial 1 misconduct when missing evidence already permitted adverse inference sought by 2 petitioner
• affirming district court’s denial of further discovery 3 where petitioner’s allegations were “too attenuated and too speculative” to make a plausible 4 showing
• affirming district court’s denial of further discovery 5 where petitioner’s allegations were “too attenuated and too speculative” to make a plausible 6 showing
• affirming district court’s denial of 19 further discovery where petitioner’s allegations were “too attenuated and too speculative” 20 to make a plausible showing
• “Sitting as fact-finder, the trial court judge is tasked with 8 weighing and making factual findings as to the credibility of witnesses.”

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