Ashker

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA EUREKA DIVISION 4 TODD ASHKER, et al., Case No. 09-cv-05796-CW (RMI)

Plaintiffs,

ORDER RE: PENDING RETALIATION

v. MOTIONS, AND ASSOCIATED

EVIDENTIARY MOTIONS

MATHEW CATE, et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 1591, 1601, 1663-3, 1667 Defendants.

10 Now pending before the court are two unrelated enforcement motions that allege certain retaliatory acts on Defendants’ part by virtue of two individual class-members’ activism and involvement in this case; and, as to one of those motions, Plaintiffs have filed two separate evidentiary motions (one of which seeks additional discovery, while the other seeks the exclusion of an expert report on which Defendants have based some of their arguments). Due to specific concerns regarding the safety of the two individual class-members, as well as more general concerns for institutional security, the Parties’ arguments and evidence have been filed under seal; and, given that this order will be…