People Center, Inc. v. Deel, Inc., et al.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 PEOPLE CENTER, INC., Case No. 25-cv-02576-CRB (LJC)
Plaintiff,
ORDER RESOLVING DISCOVERY
v. LETTER BRIEF REGARDING PLAINTIFF'S INTERROGATORIES DEEL, INC., et al., Re: Dkt. No. 146 Defendants.
12 I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Plaintiff People Center, Inc., doing business as Rippling, asserts that Defendants Deel Inc. and certain of its officers engaged in a criminal enterprise to steal trade secrets from Rippling and other competitors. The most detailed allegations in Rippling’s First Amended Complaint (FAC, ECF No. 57) concern the covert transfer of Rippling’s internal documents to Deel by Keith O’Brien, who was employed by Rippling at the time, beginning in November 2024. Rippling also alleges that two of its other former employees shared confidential information with Deel when they began working for Deel in early 2024, FAC ¶¶ 49–50, and that Deel has undertaken other efforts to gather information from Rippling like using…