District Court, N.D. Illinois August 15, 2011, Case No. 10 C 3263 (Bell v. Village of Streamwood)

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

MORTON DENLOW, United States Magistrate Judge.

Before the Court is Plaintiffs’ motion to compel Ryan Ruthenberg’s deposition testimony. The motion raises a question of first impression regarding whether an employee-union representative privilege should be adopted as a matter of federal common law in connection with a federal civil rights lawsuit.