Zhu

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JIAJIE ZHU, Case No. 19-cv-02534-JSW (TSH)

Plaintiff,

DISCOVERY ORDER

v. Re: Dkt. Nos. 79, 80 JING LI, et al., Defendants.

12 Plaintiff Jiajie Zhu seeks to depose Yi Yao, one of Defendants’ counsel of record. In this lawsuit, Plaintiff alleges that he was a majority member of a California LLC called Teetex. He was not, however, actively involved in the management of the company. Rather, Defendant Jing Li was the managing member, and her husband, Defendant Dong Chen, was its CEO. When Plaintiff graduated from business school and attempted to become a manager, a dispute arose with Li and Chen, who did not want to give up control. To resolve the dispute, the parties entered into a purchase and sale agreement (“PSA”) based on a multiple of Teetex’s reported profits. Several years later Plaintiff learned that Teetex’s profits were actually much higher than as represented, and he filed this lawsuit, claiming he had been defrauded into…