In re California Gasoline Spot Market Antitrust Litigation
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 IN RE: GASOLINE SPOT MARKET Case No. 20-cv-03131-JSC
ANTITRUST LITIGATION
ORDER RE: JOINT DISCOVERY
LETTER BRIEF FOR PRODUCTION
OF NON-PARTY PHONE RECORDS
10 Re: Dkt. No. 354
12 Now pending before the Court is a discovery dispute joint letter regarding Plaintiffs’ 13 subpoena of cell phone records. (Dkt. No. 354-4.) After reviewing the submission, the Court 14 concludes that oral argument is not required. See N.D. Cal. Civ. L.R. 7-1(b). 15 It is well settled that individuals generally do not have legitimate privacy interests in the 16 telephone numbers called to and from their cell phones. See, e.g., In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust 17 Litig., No. 1:16-CV-08637, 2017 WL 6569720, at *2 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 22, 2017). On the other hand, 18 given our ubiquitous use of cell phones, disclosing every call and text an individual makes is 19 likely to reveal some private, irrelevant information. Cf. Carpenter v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 20 2206, 2217 (2018) (observing that time-stamped cell phone location data…