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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING Case No. 18-cv-07394-JSC

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Case No. 18-cv-07393-JSC Plaintiff,

v. ORDER RE PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FÉDÉRA TION INTERNATIONALE DE F RO OR G AIS TS OU RA YN C TE O O CF E NL TE RTT AE LR NATATION, AUTHORITY OF UNITED KINGDOM Defendant. Re: Dkt. No. 192 12 THOMAS A. SHIELDS, et al., 13 Plaintiffs, 14 v.

FÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DE

NATATION, Defendant. 18 Now before the Court is Plaintiffs’ motion for issuance of a letter rogatory pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1781 and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26(b)(1) and 28(b). (Dkt. No. 192).1 Plaintiffs’ proposed letter rogatory seeks the deposition testimony of British Swimming’s Chief Executive Officer Jack Buckner. (Id. at 3.) Defendant has not filed an opposition to Plaintiffs’ motion. After consideration of Plaintiffs’ motion, the Court determines that oral argument is unnecessary, see N.D. Cal. Civ. L.R.…