Mullis

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOSPEH N. MULLIS, Case No.: 3:24-cv-01334-JES-MSB

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR

v. LIMITED DISCOVERY J.P. MORGAN CHASE & CO., DOES 1 [ECF No. 36]

TO 2, NEOLOGY INC., FRANCISCO

MARTINEZ DE VELASCO, AVERY

DENNISON CORP., and RICK SMITH, Defendants. 18 19 20 Plaintiff Joseph Mullis (“Plaintiff”) moves for limited discovery relevant to 21 Defendants’ pending Motion to Compel Arbitration. Plaintiff seeks three documents to 22 support his claim that the arbitration provisions were the result of fraud. The following 23 documents sought by Plaintiff relate to the 2017 corporate sale of Neology: (1) a 24 capitalization table for Neology’s standalone value at the time of Neology’s sale to One 25 Equity Partners (“OEP”); (2) a capitalization table for Smartrac inclusive of sale value of 26 Neology at the time of the Neology sale to OEP; and (3) an alleged side agreement made 27 between Smartrac’s Christian Uhl…