Kannan

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 8 RAJA KANNAN, Case No. 17-cv-07305-EJD (VKD)

9 Plaintiff,

ORDER RE PLAINTIFF’S

10 v. OBJECTIONS TO DEFENDANT’S

SUBPOENAS TO PROSPECTIVE

11 APPLE INC., EMPLOYERS 12 Defendant. Re: Dkt. Nos. 141, 146

13 The parties ask the Court to resolve a dispute regarding defendant Apple Inc.’s subpoenas 14 to eleven companies with whom plaintiff Raja Kannan may have sought employment while he 15 was employed with Apple. Dkt. Nos. 141, 146. Apple frames the dispute as a motion to compel, 16 but that framing seems incorrect. None of the third-party subpoena recipients is before the Court, 17 and it does not appear that any have raised objections to Apple’s subpoenas. Rather, Mr. Kannan 18 has raised objections to the subpoenas with respect to his own interests. The Court construes Mr. 19 Kannan’s objections as a motion for protective order. 20 For the reasons explained below, the…