Khan

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 SAIFULLAH KHAN, Case No. 19-cv-08027-JSC

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE: DISCOVERY DISPUTES

v. 9 Re: Dkt. Nos. 72, 73 AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC., et al., Defendants.

12 Now pending before the Court are two joint discovery dispute letters. After carefully considering the parties’ written submissions, the Court concludes that oral argument is unnecessary, see N.D. Cal. Civ. L.R. 7-1(b), and rules as set forth below. 1. Dkt. No. 72 Information regarding the promotion of Plaintiff’s comparator shortly after Plaintiff was terminated are relevant. While Defendants insist they have produced all “located” documents, they do not explain what they did to locate responsive documents. It appears they did not do an electronic search as they claim that a search of email would be too burdensome. They offer no support for that assertion, however, and it is not self-evident that a targeted search of relevant custodians would be too burdensome. Further, their contention that…