The Successor Agency to The Former Emeryville Redevelopment Agency and The City of Emeryville v. Swagelok Company

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 THE SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE Case No. 3:17-cv-00308-WHO

FORMER EMERYVILLE

8 REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY AND THE

CITY OF EMERYVILLE, ORDER RE: DISCOVERY DISPUTE

9 Plaintiff, Re: Dkt. No. 230 10 v. 11 SWAGELOK COMPANY, et al., 12 Defendants. 13

14 The plaintiffs (collectively, “Emeryville”) and remaining defendant Hanson Building 15 Materials, Limited (“Hanson”) filed a joint letter describing a discovery dispute. (“Letter”) [Dkt. 16 No. 230]. The dispute concerns the approximately five-hour deposition of an expert, Professor 17 Steven Solomon, who wrote a report and rebuttal for Emeryville about corporate governance and 18 corporate separateness. Letter at 1. Hanson asserts that Solomon refused to answer eleven 19 questions and now seeks an order compelling Solomon to appear for another deposition at 20 plaintiffs’ expense, or an order precluding him from testifying about the subjects he allegedly 21 refused to respond to. Id. at 1-3. Emeryville says that Solomon answered the questions and that 22 Hanson failed to follow up,…