Hetland

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 C. JOHANNES HETLAND, Case No. 19-cv-02288-JSC

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE: SUBSEQUENT

v. EMPLOYER DISCOVERY DISPUTE

LENDINGTREE, LLC, Re: Dkt. No. 24 Defendant.

In this employment dispute action, Plaintiff alleges he was terminated in retaliation for complaining about Defendant’s failure to provide him with performance-based restricted stock units. He makes claims for breach of contract and certain wage and hour violations. Now pending before the Court is a joint discovery dispute letter brief arising from Defendant’s subpoena to Plaintiff’s subsequent employer eHealth. After reviewing the parties’ written submission, the Court concludes that oral argument is unnecessary, see Civ. L.R. 7-1(b). The Court finds that, with one exception noted below, all of the requested documents implicate Plaintiff’s privacy interests under state law. “To evaluate privacy objections under either federal or state law, the Court must balance the…