O'Connell

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division SHAWN O’CONNELL, Case No. 22-cv-02320-WHO (LB)

Plaintiff,

DISCOVERY ORDER

v. Re: ECF No. 63 CELONIS, INC., Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION AND STATEMENT The plaintiff Shawn O’Connell sued his former employer Celonis, claiming wrongful termination, fraud, breach of contract, and related torts. He alleges that the defendant recruited him by promising 3,000 restricted stock units (RSUs), even though the company had no employee- stock plan, and later relied on a “bad faith” interpretation of the plaintiff’s offer letter to reduce his equity to 300 RSUs. He also alleges that the defendant later terminated him after he objected to certain business practices allegedly designed to inflate the company’s pre-IPO growth and provided evidence in a sexual-assault case brought by his direct report.1 25 26 27 1 Compl. – ECF No. 1 at 8 (cover page), 11–13 (¶¶ 1–9). Citations refer to material in the…