Ryan

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 JOSHUA RYAN, No. 2:23-cv-02763-JAM-JDP 11 Plaintiff, 12 v. ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

DISQUALIFY COUNSEL

13 HOME DEPOT, U.S.A., INC., et al., 14 Defendants. 15 16 Defendant Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. moves to disqualify the 17 law firm of Singleton Schreiber, LLP (“Singleton”) as attorneys 18 of record for Plaintiff Joshua Ryan on the basis that Defendant’s 19 former attorney Michelle Meyers, who is now a partner at 20 Singleton, is representing Plaintiff without a conflict waiver 21 from Defendant. Defendant argues disqualification of Meyers is 22 required because she was privy to confidential information during 23 her prior representation of Defendant that is relevant here and 24 because this case is substantially similar to several cases where 25 Meyers represented Defendant. Defendant also argues the Court 26 should impute Meyers’ disqualification to Singleton because the 27 firm failed to screen Meyers off from other lawyers at the firm 28 before accepting representation of…