Johnson v. Knight Transportation, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SORYA JOHNSON, Case No.: 1:18-CV-01674- JLT

Plaintiff, ORDER AFTER TELEPHONIC CONFERENCE

ON DISCOVERY DISPUTE

v.

KNIGHT TRANSPORTATION, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

The Court held an informal conference on a discovery dispute. (Doc. 19) The parties have several disputes. Most of the dispute related to the plaintiff’s responses to discovery, the Court did not address in detail because the parties have not completed their meet and confer efforts in this regard1. First, at the conference, the Court noted that the holdings of Diaz v. Carcamo, 51 Cal.4th 1148 (2011) and Armenta v. Churchill, 42 Cal.2d 448 (1954) coupled with Moore v. Superway Logistics, Inc., 2019 WL 2285392 (May 29, 2019), seem to dispose of the request set forth in plaintiff’s request for production of documents number 9, because Knight admits vicarious liability for the acts of its employee, Mr. Gossard, assuming liability is imposed on him. Moreover, the 26 27 1 That being said, it appears the…