Pappas

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS CO., No. 2:21-cv-00753 DJC AC 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER 14 JOHN PAPPAS, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 17 Presently before the Court is Plaintiff’s Motion for Contempt based on a 18 number of alleged violations of the Court’s Preliminary Injunction Order. Plaintiff 19 claims that Defendant Pappas deleted files from his computers and failed to provide 20 storage devices and accounts in violation of that order. 21 For the reasons stated below, the Court grants in part and denies in part 22 Plaintiff’s motion (ECF No. 47)1. 23 BACKGROUND 24 Plaintiff R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. filed this action on April 26, 2021 (see ECF 25 No. 1) seeking to prevent Defendant John Pappas III, a former employee of Plaintiff, 26

27 1 Several documents filed related to this motion have been filed or lodged under seal. Where there is a redacted version available on the docket for this action, citations will be to that docket entry,…