Depadua

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ALTAIR DEPADUA, Case No. 20-cv-04947-TSH

Plaintiff,

DISCOVERY ORDER RE EX PARTE

v. APPLICATION FOR ORDER

AUTHORIZING PRE-HEARING

CENTRAL TRANSPORT, LLC, DISCOVERY Defendant. Re: Dkt. No.

12 Plaintiff Altair Depudua moves for limited pre-hearing discovery pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(d)(1). Depadua filed his original complaint in California state court on May 15, 2020 and a First Amended Complaint (“FAC”) on May 26, 2020, alleging, among other things, violations of California employment and labor law. The FAC names Central Transport, LLC (“CT”) and 20 doe defendants. ECF No. 1-1. The FAC contains several allegations related to the conduct of a person who Depadua alleges to have been his direct supervisor. See FAC ¶¶ 30-33, 36-37, 39. Depadua is unaware of his supervisor’s full name and knows only the supervisor’s first name, Oscar, though he asserts that Oscar is a California…