Russell

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 San Francisco Division 11 TALA RUSSELL, Case No. 18-cv-04525-EMC (LB)

12 Plaintiff,

DISCOVERY ORDER; NOTICE AND

13 v. ORDER REGARDING DISCOVERY

PROCEDURES

14 KRONOS INCORPORATED, Re: ECF No. 48 15 Defendant. 16 17 The court held a discovery hearing on October 24, 2019 regarding the disputes raised in the 18 parties’ joint discovery letter1 and issues this order to memorialize the rulings on the record. 19 First, Kronos represented that it fully responded to the plaintiff’s discovery requests and 20 produced what it has, with the substantial caveat that it does not have the plaintiff’s emails or 21 Mike Solomon’s emails due to its document-retention policy.2 Under that policy, Kronos deletes 22 all employees’ emails 30 days after termination of employment.3 Kronos clarified at the hearing 23 that the issue is not the expense of restoration of emails and instead is the impossibility of 24 restoring them. 25

26 1 Joint Letter…