Threde
Threde v. Brandrep LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 A1 ON TRACK SLIDING DOOR REPAIR Case No. 21-cv-03013-SI AND INSTALLATION, INC., et al., 8 Plaintiffs, ORDER RE: DISCOVERY 9 v. Re: Dkt. No. 62
BRANDREP LLC,
11 Defendant. 12 The parties have submitted a dispute about whether plaintiffs are required to respond to defendant’s document requests and interrogatories seeking information about other lawsuits plaintiffs have filed alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), 47 U.S.C. § 227 et seq. Defendant asserts that plaintiffs are “professional plaintiffs who appear to manufacture TCPA lawsuits,” and that the discovery at issue is relevant to plaintiffs’ credibility and their adequacy as class representatives. Plaintiffs oppose the discovery as irrelevant, harassing and burdensome, and they argue that the discovery requests are additionally improper as to non-party Louis Floyd (Floyd is the owner of plaintiff A1 On Track Sliding Door Repair and Installation, Inc., but not a named party). 22…