Tarantino

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division ARTHUR J. GALLAGHER & CO., Case No. 20-cv-05505-EMC (LB)

Plaintiff,

DISCOVERY ORDER

v. Re: ECF No. 46 DON TARANTINO, et al., Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff Author J. Gallagher & Co. is an insurance-brokerage firm that obtains insurance policies for its clients from third-party insurance companies. A competitor, Alliant Insurance, hired 15 Gallagher employees, including the four defendants. Gallagher alleged that the defendants stole internal documents containing its trade secrets. It thus sued them for trade-secrets misappropriation in violation of 18 U.S.C § 1832 and Cal. Civ. Code § 3426, among other claims.1 The parties disputed whether Gallagher identified its trade secrets with the reasonable particularity required by California’s Uniform Trade Secrets Act (CUTSA), Cal. Civ. Proc. § 25

1 Second Am. Compl. (SAC) – ECF No. 40 at 2 (¶ 8), 12–20 (¶¶ 46–94); Joint Case-Management Statement – ECF No. 35…