Wisk Aero LLC v. Archer Aviation Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 WISK AERO LLC, Case No. 3:21-cv-02450-WHO

Plaintiff,

ORDER ON DISCOVERY DISPUTE

v. 9 Re: Dkt. No. 151 ARCHER AVIATION INC., Defendant.

12 Every day, judges in this courthouse and across the country dedicate scarce resources (provided by taxpayers) to deciding disputes of great importance to peoples’ lives. Petitions to be released from incarceration or immigration detention. Benefits that are a person’s only source of income. Prison time. Infringement of constitutional and civil rights. And in many of these cases—cases with dramatic stakes and strong feelings—parties and their counsel manage not to bring avoidable, trivial disputes to the court. Wisk and Archer’s case is important too; I have devoted and will continue to devote substantial time, energy, and focus to it. But the parties need to get perspective. That we have, so soon in the life of this case, reached a point where an absurd dispute like this has been filed—and the flurry of unnecessary…