Zarco

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 EMMANUEL ZARCO, Case No. 20-cv-00089-HSG

Plaintiff, ORDER DIRECTING

SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEFING

v. Re: Dkt. No. 60 VWR INTERNATIONAL, LLC, et al., Defendants.

12 On June 7, 2021, Plaintiff filed a motion to strike Defendants’ memorandum of costs. Dkt. No. 60. Defendants, in turn, filed an opposition to Plaintiff’s motion to strike on June 11, 2021, Dkt. No. 61, to which Plaintiff replied on June 28, 2021, Dkt. No. 62. The parties are DIRECTED to submit by November 2, 2021 simultaneous supplemental briefs of no more than four pages addressing whether the Court should exercise its discretion to deny costs to Defendants under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(d). The parties should address, at a minimum, the five “‘good reasons’ for declining to award costs” articulated by the Ninth Circuit in Escriba v. Foster Poultry Farms, Inc., 743 F.3d 1236, 1247-48 (2014): (1) the substantial public importance of the case, (2) the closeness and…