Pearson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division AKAYSIA PEARSON, et al., Case No. 20-cv-05726-CRB (LB)

Plaintiffs,

DISCOVERY ORDER

v. Re: ECF No. 44 STATE OF CALIFORNIA, et al., Defendants. 16 The defendants moved to compel a nonparty John Hiserodt’s s compliance with a subpoena issued to him to produce information about a second-opinion autopsy that he performed — at the request of the guardian ad litem for plaintiff N.P — on decedent Coltrane Pearson.1 The trial judge previously referred discovery disputes to the undersigned, and the court gave notice of its discovery-dispute procedures.2 For clarity, for the purposes of third-party subpoenas and discovery disputes, the court’s standing order’s instructions to “parties” is meant to refer to the participants in a third-party discovery dispute (even if they are not formal parties to the underlying litigation). The court views the joint-letter-brief process as more efficient than the five-week…