In re California Gasoline Spot Market Antitrust Litigation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 BOGARD CONSTRUCTION, INC., et al., Case Nos. 22-mc-80104-JSC Plaintiffs, 22-mc-80107-JSC 8 v. ORDER RE: OPIS SUBPOENAS OIL PRICE INFORMATION SERVICE, Re: Dkt. Nos. 1, 4,

LLC,

11 Defendant.

12 In the underlying putative antitrust class action, Plaintiffs allege that Defendants Vitol Inc. and SK Energy conspired to manipulate the benchmark price published by non-party Oil Price Information Servce, LLC (OPIS). See In Re: California Gasoline Spot Market Antitrust Litigation, No. 20-cv-3131 JSC (N.D. Cal.). Plaintiffs and Defendants in that action issued document and (in the case of Defendants) deposition subpoenas to OPIS. OPIS refused to comply. Now pending before the Court are Plaintiffs’ and Defendants’ motions to compel OPIS to comply with the subpoenas, and OPIS’s counter-motions to quash. (No. 22-mc-80104, Dkt. Nos. 1, 4, 22; No. 22-mc-80107, Dkt. No. 1.) After carefully considering the parties’ written submissions, and having…