Wescott

I. BACKGROUND

21 Plaintiff is a resident of Scottsdale, Arizona. Compl. ¶ 1. Defendants Robert J. Block, 22 Monette Stephens, Terry Szucsko, Milla Lvovich, and the law firm Lvovich & Szucsko, P.C. 23 (collectively, “Defendants”) are residents of San Francisco, California, and Chicago, Illinois. 24 Plaintiff alleges that Defendants engaged in a conspiracy to steal information he provided to his 25 attorneys during his divorce. Id. ¶¶ 2-6. Specifically, in 2014, Plaintiff filed for divorce in San 26 27 Francisco Superior Court against his wife, Defendant Monette Stephens. Id. ¶ 15. In 2017, the family court issued an order pertaining to custody and financial matters. Id. ¶ 17. Plaintiff decided to appeal and hired non-party Robert D. Shearer, a Chicago-based attorney who is now deceased, to review the family court decision. Id. ¶¶18-19. Block, a disbarred Illinois attorney, worked as a paralegal in Shearer’s office. Id. ¶ 20. Plaintiff alleges that Stephens and her divorce attorney Terry Szucsko concocted a scheme to bribe Block to steal privileged and confidential information held by Shearer’s law office. Compl. ¶¶ 21-23. …