THOMAS v. REAGAN

USDC Cr. No. 84-3552

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
WILLIAM THOMAS,             
            Plaintiff,      
                            
          v.                         Civil Action No. 84-3552
                            
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,   
            Defendants.                      FILED
                                            AUG 1 1986
                                     JAMES E DAVEY, CLERK

ORDER

Upon oonsideratiun of the Federal defendants' Motion for Protective Order, filed July 18, 1986, the plaintiff's reply filed July 30, 1986, the plaintiff's supplement to plaintiff's reply, filed July 31, 1986, the Court's Memorandum and Pretrial Order, filed June 5, 1986, and the entire record, it is now hereby this 1st day of August, 1986,

ORDERED that the Motion for Protective Order be and is bereby GRANTED, in part, and DENIED, in part, in that Manus Fish, Richard Robbins, Patricia Bangert shall be made available for deposition during the discovery period at a date to be scheduled, but the Protective Order is granted as to James C. Lindsey, Jerry Parr, James Watt, William Clark, Donald Hodel, Robert Bedell and Lieutenant Merillat (now located in the Park Service's San Francisco regional office); and it is furtber,

ORDERED that the deposition of Mr. A. C. Thomas can be scheduled for some date after August 11, 1986: and it is further,

ORDERED that as to the depositions of Manus Fish, Richard Robins and Patricia Bangert the scope of the depositions may include their personal knowledge, if any, of plaintiff's arrests and other incidents directly involving him and whether the adoption of the park regulations was or was not an act in

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furtherance of any conspiracy to violate plaintiff's civil rights, specifically whether they are modified or narrowed specificdlly to prohibit his type of activities or to prohibit such activities as engaged in by him by anyone and even if they are so modified or narrowed, whether there was any motive or intent by them to violate his or anyone's First Amendment rights or any otber civil rights of any person; and it is further,

ORDERED that in order to accomplish the above described discovery and whatever further document productian that may be requied pursuant to the plaintiff's several requests for expedited production of documents of July 30, 1986 and to allow time to resolve the scope thereof, the discovery completion deadline is hereby extended to August 30, 1986, but this in no wav extends any of the other deadlines established by the Court, including the date of August 22, 1986 for the submission of dispositive motions.

(signed) ARTHUR L. BURNETT SR.
U.S. Magistrate

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