Moore
Moore v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 OLETA MOORE, et al., Case No. 22-cv-01849-JSC
Plaintiffs,
ORDER RE: PLAINTIFFS’ 30(B)(1)
v. DEPOSITIONS
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., Re: Dkt. No. 53 Defendant.
12 Before the Court is the parties’ joint discovery letter regarding Plaintiffs’ depositions of two Chase “fraud queue” employees. (Dkt. No. 53.) Plaintiffs noticed the depositions under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(1), which allows a party to request the deposition of another party by notice. Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(b)(1). “However, a corporate employee or agent who does not qualify as an officer, director, or managing agent is not subject to deposition by notice,” In re PFA Ins. Mktg. Litig., No. 4:18-CV- 03771-YGR, 2021 WL 5991681, at *1 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 4, 2021), and “the party seeking discovery must subpoena that deponent just as with any nonparty,” Gowan v. Mid Century Ins. Co., 309 F.R.D. 503, 513 (D.S.D. 2015). To identify a managing agent, courts…