Goose Pond AG, Inc. v. Duarte Nursery Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 GOOSE POND AG, INC., No. 2:19-cv-2631 KJM DB Plaintiff, v. ORDER DUARTE NURSERY, INC., a California corporation; JAMES DUARTE, an individual; JOHN DUARTE, an individual, Defendants. 17 This action came before the undersigned on August 7, 2020, for hearing of defendants’ motion to compel responses to discovery served on non-party Farmland Management Services, (“Farmland”). (ECF No. 41.) Attorneys Janlynn Fleener and Robert Soran appeared via Zoom on behalf of plaintiff and non-party Farmland. Attorneys Peter Prows and Gerald Brunn

1 Defendants’ motion to compel was originally noticed for hearing before the previously assigned magistrate judge. (ECF No. 31.) On June 11, 2020, this action was reassigned to the undersigned. (ECF No. 40.) That same day defendants re-noticed their motion for hearing before the undersigned. (ECF No. 41.)

2 “Although Rule 26(b) applies to discovery of non-parties as well as parties in a…