Motion to Quash Defendant Neil Kishore Rikhi’s Deposition Subpoena for Personal Appearance and Production of Documents and Things
2025CUPA041442: ALISA MARIE BACCUS vs NEIL KISHORE RIKHI 07/14/2026 in Department 43 Motion to Quash Defendant Neil Kishore Rikhi's Deposition Subpoena for Personal Appearance and Production of Documents and Things
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Motion: Plaintiffs Motion to Quash Subpoena
Tentative Ruling: Plaintiffs Motion to Quash Subpoena is DENIED. However, the Court orders the subpoena issued to Adventist Health Physicians modified, restricting the time frame to the period beginning August 29, 2012 (five years before seeking treatment for a headache on August 2017). (Code Civ. Proc. §1987.1(a).)
The subpoena seeks from Adventist Health Physicians Network the following:
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Records (including, digital information), that examine, affect, address, or involve in any way Limited to head, neck, back, shoulders, arms, legs and date range of 4/23/2008 to present, regarding ALISA MARIE BACCUS; DOB: 3/31/04; SS#: XXX-XX-1942, to include but not limited to examinations, medical history, diagnosis, treatment, testing, radiology, prognosis, prescriptions, and billing (including, but not limited, to payments, adjustments, reimbursements,
2025CUPA041442: ALISA MARIE BACCUS vs NEIL KISHORE RIKHI
and explanations of benefits). EXCLUDE: health information that may be related to reproductive health care.
Plaintiff is 22 years old. Records dating to when the patient was four years of age is overbroad. Britt v. Superior Court (1978) 20 Cal.3d 844, 862 (trial court erred in requiring plaintiffs to make unlimited disclosure of their lifetime medical histories). The Court otherwise does not quash or modify the subpoena. Defendant is not required to accept plaintiffs representations. There is the potential that Plaintiffs symptoms of injury such as pain in her extremities (hip and shoulder pain disclosed to the examining chiropractor (6/29/26 Dewey Dec at Ex C)) result from prior injuries to Plaintiffs arms, shoulders and legs and pre-existed the subject motor vehicle accident.
Plaintiffs failure to identify her medical examination for a headache in 2017 in her form interrogatories (Ps Response to Form Interrogatory 10.1 (6/29/26 Dewey Dec at Ex B)) suggests she may not recall all such injuries/treatment she may have suffered in the past.
Adventist Health Physicians Network is ordered to appear within 30 days and produce the requested records, excluding records dating from before August 29, 2012.
The request for monetary sanctions is denied.
Defendant is ordered to serve notice of the Courts ruling on Plaintiff and Adventist Health Physicians Network.
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