Silicon Laboratories, Inc. v. Cresta Technology Corporation

Filing 134

ORDER RE: 125 REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE ON EXPERT DISCOVERY AND REPORTS by Magistrate Judge Paul Singh Grewal (psglc2, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 11/30/2015)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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SILICON LABORATORIES, INC.,
Plaintiff,

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v.

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CRESTA TECHNOLOGY
CORPORATION,

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Case No. 14-cv-03227-PSG
ORDER RE: REQUEST FOR
GUIDANCE ON EXPERT DISCOVERY
AND REPORTS
(Re: Docket No. 125)

United States District Court
Northern District of California

Defendant.
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Plaintiff Silicon Laboratories, Inc. seeks the guidance of the court with respect to a “four

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inch stack” of financial documents.1 Silicon Labs says that Defendant Cresta Technology Corp.

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produced these documents for the first time the evening before the expert deposition of Cresta

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Tech’s damages expert, Matthew Lewis.2 Lewis relied on several of the documents in forecasting

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revenues, but at his deposition he could not pick the relevant documents out of the stack of paper.3

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Lewis agreed to “track down the specific Bates number(s) requested,”4 but Silicon Labs has not

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yet received that information, even though fact and expert discovery have now closed.5
Enough time has passed. Action is required. Cresta Tech and Lewis shall identify by

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Bates number each of the documents on which Lewis relied. Cresta Tech shall produce this
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Docket No. 125 at 2-4.

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See id. at 2-3.

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See id. at 3.

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Docket No. 129 at 2.

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See Docket No. 133.

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information to Silicon Labs by December 4, 2015. If Cresta Tech fails to do so by that date,

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Lewis may not testify as to any of the opinions that he formed in reliance on the unidentified

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documents.

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SO ORDERED.

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Dated: November 30, 2015

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PAUL S. GREWAL
United States Magistrate Judge

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United States District Court
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