Kannan

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 RAJA KANNAN, Case No. 17-cv-07305-EJD (VKD)

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE PLAINTIFF’S

v. OBJECTIONS TO DEFENDANT’S

SUBPOENAS TO PROSPECTIVE

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

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