The Successor Agency to The Former Emeryville Redevelopment Agency and The City of Emeryville v. Swagelok Company

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 THE SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE Case No. 17-cv-00308-WHO

FORMER EMERYVILLE

8 REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY AND THE

CITY OF EMERYVILLE, ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR

9 ISSUANCE OF A LETTER OF Plaintiff, REQUEST UNDER THE HAGUE 10 CONVENTION v. 11 Dkt. No. 176 SWAGELOK COMPANY, et al., 12 Defendants. 13 14 INTRODUCTION 15 Plaintiffs The Successor Agency to the former Emeryville Redevelopment Agency 16 (“Successor Agency”) and the City of Emeryville (“City”) (collectively, “plaintiffs”) move for the 17 issuance of a letter of request to compel the production of documents and oral testimony from 18 sources in the United Kingdom. Dkt. No. 176. (“Mot.”). Specifically, plaintiffs seek documents 19 from Tillotson Commercial Motors Limited (“TCM”), a company incorporated in England with a 20 U.S. based division named Hanson Industries (“HI”); the oral testimony of a person most 21 knowledgeable on…