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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ASHLEIGH ANGELO, et al., Case No. 1:21-cv-01609-JLT-CDB

Plaintiffs, ORDER RE: DISCOVERY DISPUTE v. (Doc. 77) THOMSON INTERNATIONAL INC., Defendant. 16 17 Currently before the Court is a discovery dispute that the parties have agreed to submit to the Court for adjudication through the Court’s informal discovery dispute procedure. Background The 14 Plaintiffs in these seven, consolidated actions assert causes of action against Defendant based on personal injuries they sustained between June and August 2020 that allegedly were caused by the same product – a salmonella-infected onion sourced by Defendant. On the deadline to make expert witness disclosures pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)(2) (September 12, 2023), Plaintiffs in six of the seven actions transmitted to Defendant a disclosure identifying four retained experts and approximately 28 “non-retained” expert witnesses. (Doc. 77-1). The 28 witnesses are described in Plaintiffs’…