Cohodes
Cohodes v. MiMedx Group, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 MARC COHODES, Case No. 3:22-cv-00368-JD
Plaintiff,
ORDER RE PERSONAL
v. JURISDICTION
MIMEDX GROUP, INC., et al., Defendants.
12 Plaintiff Marc Cohodes is a “hedge fund manager” and “short seller” who says he “has exposed many publicly traded companies” engaged in fraud and other nefarious conduct. Dkt. No. 1 ¶ 1. Defendant Daniel Guy is an officer and director of a hedge fund that is said to have lost money after Cohodes exposed one of its investment companies. Id. ¶ 4. Cohodes alleges that Guy hired defendant Derrick Snowdy, a private eye, to spy on him in California for information that could be used to get back at Cohodes for the investment loss. Id. Cohodes says defendant MiMedx Group hired Snowdy for the same purposes in response to Cohodes’s investigation into that company, which did not involve Guy or his fund. Id. ¶ 5. Cohodes alleges that Guy and Snowdy violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, Cal. Penal…