Li

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 NINA XIAOYAN LI, Case No. 23-cv-03347-JSW (TSH)

Plaintiff,

DISCOVERY ORDER

v. Re: Dkt. Nos. 86, 88, 98, 104, 105, 106, MERCK & CO., INC., et al., 108, 109, 110, 112, 113 Defendants.

12 This order is a follow up to the discovery order at ECF No. 102. A. ECF Nos. 86, 104, 106, 109, 110, 113 1. Format of Document Production In ECF No. 86 Defendants argued that Plaintiff has produced documents in an improper fashion, such as “PDF files that are hundreds of pages long, in which documents are randomly thrown together with no organization,” and that documents were not produced in a usable form, such as lacking metadata, dates, and sender and recipient information. Defendants said this is a pervasive problem in Plaintiff’s document production. ECF No. 86 at 2-3. Plaintiff denied this and said “Plaintiff’s counsel followed their usual practice which is to produce documents in text- searchable PDF format.” Id. at 6. The Court…