Miranda Dairy v. Harry Shelton Livestock, LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA EUREKA DIVISION 7 MIRANDA DAIRY, et al., Case No. 18-cv-06357-RMI
Plaintiffs,
ORDER RE: DISCOVERY DISPUTE
v. Re: Dkt. No. 137 HARRY SHELTON LIVESTOCK, LLC, et al., 12 Defendants. 13 Now pending before the court is a jointly-filed letter brief setting forth a discovery dispute that boils down to Defendants’ requests to compel certain discovery. See Ltr. Br. (dkt. 136).1 For the reasons stated below, Defendants’ requests are granted and Plaintiffs’ objections are overruled. At the outset, the court will note that the spirit embodied in the discovery rules makes clear that a liberal and broad-based discovery process promotes the efficient and early resolution of litigation and, in the alternative, it promotes the narrowing of issues at trial. See generally Reinsdorf v. Skechers U.S.A., Inc., No. CV 10-7181 DDP (SSx), 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 200627, at *23 (C.D. Cal. Sep. 9, 2013) (citing Episcopo v. General Motors Corp., 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS …