Better Meat Co. v. Emergy, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BETTER MEAT COMPANY, No. 2:21-cv-02338-KJM-CKD Plaintiff, v. ORDER EMERGY, INC., dba MEATI FOODS, et al., 15 Defendants.

17 Plaintiff Better Meat Company (“Better Meat”) moves for an order compelling discovery, including depositions and further production of documents, including attorney-client privileged documents. (ECF No. 70.) The parties appeared for a hearing on this matter via videoconference on July 27, 2022. Counsel Jeffrey Theodore and Eric Scott Schlabs appeared for Better Meat, Jeffrey Daniel Smyth, David Mroz, and Sonja Sahlsten for defendant Emergy, Inc. (“Emergy”), and Michael Jones and Kate McKenney for Bond Capital Management LP and Paul Vronsky (“Bond defendants”). I. BACKGROUND Better Meat alleges it invented a meat substitute called “Rhiza,” whose underlying technology resulted from “extensive time, effort, and resources devoted by [Better Meat] to researching mycelium- and mycoprotein-based foods.” (Compl.…