United States v. 22.80 Acres of Land

OPINION RE DISCLOSURE OF INITIAL APPRAISAL

WAYNE D. BRAZIL, United States Magistrate.

The issue in the instant discovery dispute is whether the government (plaintiff) should be ordered to disclose to the Benoit defendants an initial appraisal report prepared by Robert Grihalva, an employee of the Bureau of Reclamation. After carefully considering arguments presented by both parties in several written submissions, and orally during a telephone hearing, the undersigned concludes that there are two separate bases, each independently sufficient, for ordering disclosure of the subject report. One…