Werdebaugh-v-Blue Diamond Growers

Filing 144

ORDER by Magistrate Judge Howard R. Lloyd re 143 Discovery Dispute Joint Report No. 2. (hrllc2, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 7/24/2014)

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NOT FOR CITATION

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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SAN JOSE DIVISION

United States District Court
Northern District of California

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CHRIS WERDEBAUGH, individually and
on behalf of all others similarly situated,
Plaintiffs,

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Case No. 5:12-CV-02724 LHK (HRL)
ORDER RE DISCOVERY DISPUTE
JOINT REPORT NO. 2

v.
BLUE DIAMOND GROWERS,

[Re: Dkt. 143]

Defendant.
In Discovery Dispute Joint Report (DDJR) No. 2, plaintiff seeks an order compelling

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defendant to produce documents responsive to his second set of requests for production.

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Plaintiff’s request is denied without prejudice because the record indicates that his meet-and-

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confer efforts leading up to the instant DDJR were less than stellar and that the parties have not

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actually had meaningful negotiations over the information being requested. Plaintiff argues in

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highly conclusory fashion that defendant’s discovery responses are deficient, without explaining

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how or why that is so with respect to each of the 29 requests at issue. He also fails to address

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defendant’s specific arguments and assertions as to the discovery it is willing provide, and the

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discovery that it cannot or will not provide for various reasons. In sum, the issues were not

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properly teed up for the court on this DDJR.
SO ORDERED.
Dated: July 24, 2014
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HOWARD R. LLOYD
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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United States District Court
Northern District of California

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5:12-cv-02724-LHK Notice has been electronically mailed to:
Ben F. Pierce Gore [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

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Brian K Herrington

[e-mail], [e-mail]

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Chant Yedalian

[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

Colin Harvey Dunn [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail]

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Dewitt Marshall Lovelace , Sr

[e-mail]

Gary McKay Yarborough , Jr

[e-mail]

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Geoffrey R. Pittman [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail]

United States District Court
Northern District of California

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Lawrence M. Cirelli [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail]
Megan Oliver-Thompson [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail]

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