The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Agilent Technologies, Inc.

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United States District Court, Northern District of CaliforniaSeptember 2, 20223:18-cv-01199California475 words

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE Case No. 18-cv-01199-VC

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR

UNIVERSITY,

ORDER RE MOTION FOR

Plaintiff, RECONSIDERATION AND MOTION

FOR DETERMINATION OF GOOD

v. FAITH SETTLEMENT

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC., et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 149, 235, 249 Defendants.

I. The motion for reconsideration of the Court’s July 17, 2020 order, Dkt. No. 149, is granted in part and denied in part. “Reconsideration is appropriate if the district court (1) is presented with newly discovered evidence, (2) committed clear error or the initial decision was manifestly unjust, or (3) if there is an intervening change in controlling law.” School District No. 1J v. ACandS, Inc., 5 F.3d 1255, 1263 (9th Cir. 1993). It was clear error to grant summary judgment as to Agilent’s affirmative defenses when Stanford only moved for summary judgment as to HP’s affirmative defenses. Agilent has only moved to reinstate its seventeenth (waiver and estoppel), eighteenth (assumption of risk) and thirty-fourth (release or waiver) affirmative defenses. Those defenses are reinstated as to Agilent. It bears…

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