Howington
Deborah Howington, et al. v. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., et al.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 DEBORAH HOWINGTON, et al., Case No. 24-cv-05684-VKD
Plaintiffs,
ORDER RE NOVEMBER 5, 2025
v. DISCOVERY DISPUTE
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR Re: Dkt. No. 97 MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., et al., 12 Defendants.
13 The parties ask the Court to resolve their dispute regarding whether TSMC1 should be permitted to redact information pertaining to visa type and/or immigration status from documents that are otherwise responsive to plaintiffs’ document requests, including specifically documents responsive to RFP 13. Dkt. No. 97. The Court held a hearing on this matter on November 18, 2025. Dkt. No. 99. The Court previously ordered that TSMC need not produce visa and PERM application/green card information on an employee- or applicant-specific basis from its company- wide HR-related data sources in response to Plaintiffs’ RFPs 1-4. See Dkt. No. 86. In so doing, the Court observed that “Plaintiffs do…