Zeleny

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 MICHAEL ZELENY, Case No. 17-cv-07357-RS (TSH)

Plaintiff,

DISCOVERY ORDER

v. Re: Dkt. No. 115 GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., Defendants.

11 This case is about crusades. Plaintiff Michael Zeleny has been on a crusade to expose the wrongdoing of a prominent Silicon Valley executive, Min Zhu. From 2005 to 2012 Zeleny staged public protests of Zhu and his cohorts at New Enterprise Associates and WebEx. Zeleny’s protests took the form of in-person demonstrations, musical performances, and multimedia posts on YouTube. His protests were intended to be provocative. They included flyers and posters with graphic content that called out individuals by name. Zeleny eventually combined the First Amendment with the Second and started openly carrying and displaying unloaded firearms during his protests. But Zeleny says the City of Menlo Park has been on a crusade too. Fed up with his loud and unwelcome message, the City allegedly entered into a conspiracy…