Opinion
20-cv-04808-WHA (AGT)
08-11-2021
QUINTARA BIOSCIENCES, INC., Plaintiff, v. RUIFENG BIZTECH INC., et al., Defendants.
DISCOVERY ORDER
Re: Dkt. Nos. 135, 138
ALEX G. TSE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
Defendants' motion to compel Quintara to do the following-to image and review Quintara principal Xueling Zhao's files, to produce any documents found in those files that are responsive to defendants' document requests, and to reopen Zhao's deposition based on any additional documents that are produced by Zhao (see Dkt. 135 at 3)-is denied. Quintara's counsel has told the Court that Zhao “treated document requests to Quintara as to herself, ” that she “diligently searched for and produced thousands of pages of documents, ” and that “there [are] simply no more documents] to produce.” Id. at 4. Defendants haven't offered a compelling reason to doubt the veracity of these statements. Because Zhao has produced all the responsive documents she has, defendants' requested relief is unnecessary.
Defendants' request for sanctions, based on Quintara's purported failure to preserve ESI (see Dkt. 138 at 3), is denied. Today Judge Alsup denied a similar request for sanctions, again based on Quintara's purported failure to preserve ESI. See Dkt. 199. The undersigned doesn't see good reason to deviate from Judge Alsup's order, and so similarly denies defendants' sanctions request.
IT IS SO ORDERED.