Williams v. Facebook, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 LAWRENCE OLIN, et al., Case No. 18-cv-01881-RS (TSH)
Plaintiffs,
DISCOVERY ORDER
v. Re: Dkt. Nos. 153, 156 FACEBOOK, INC., Defendant.
12 We are here on Plaintiffs’ motion to compel with respect to their Requests for Inspection (“RFIs”) Nos. 1, 4 and 5. ECF No. 153. A. RFI 1 Plaintiffs have asked to inspect the complete source code repository for the Facebook Messenger app. ECF No. 153 at 2. In ECF No. 156, they clarify they mean the source code created on or between January 1, 2014 and March 27, 2018 for the Android operating system. Facebook takes issue with the scope (not the dates), seeking to limit the inspection to the source code that relates to the call and text history uploading feature that is at issue in this case. For today’s purposes, Plaintiffs have not shown that the inspection of all of the Messenger app source code is relevant and proportional. Plaintiffs offer a single theory for why all of the Messenger app…