Opinion
00 Civ. 7913 (RWS)
February 25, 2004
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Plaintiff Roy Commer, pro se, ("Commer") has again sought discovery and documents from the defendant unions and certain of their officers. For the reasons set forth below, the motion is denied.
Familiarity with the following orders and decisions is assumed:Commer v. McEntee, 283 F. Supp.2d 93 (S.D.N.Y. 2003);Commer v. McEntee, 2003 WL 1878239 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 11, 2003);Commer v. Giuliani, 34 Fed.Appx. 802, 2002 WL 826462 (2d Cir. May 1, 2002); Commer v. McEntee, 145 F. Supp.2d 333 (S.D.N.Y. 2001); Commer v. McEntee, 2001 WL 274125 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 19, 2001); Commer v. McEntee, 121 F. Supp.2d 388 (S.D.N.Y. 2000). Based upon these prior proceedings the issue presented by this action is whether or not the proceedings taken against Commer between November 1998 and May 2000 were intended to suppress his First Amendment rights rather than to enforce certain of the union procedures. The discovery ordered to date has sought to address the knowledge of the defendants during the relevant period.
The present motion by Commer appears to seek evidence relating to a wide-ranging catalogue of malefactions by the defendants without a temporal connection to the issue in this action or any indication of an interrelationship between these alleged acts and the proceedings taken against Commer. In addition, Commer requests the same categories of documents that he requested in his motion to compel filed in March 2003. Commer's request was denied, apart from the discovery relevant to the one remaining claim. See Commer, 2003 WL 1878239, at *2. Nothing has changed since that time which would require that discovery be further broadened.
For these reasons, the motion is denied.
It is so ordered.