Betty's Best, Inc. v. The Facebook Advertisers Listed on Schedule A
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 BETTY’S BEST, INC., Case No. 23-cv-04716-JSC
8 Plaintiff,
ORDER RE: DEFENDANTS’ MOTION
9 v. TO QUASH
10 THE FACEBOOK ADVERTISERS Re: Dkt. No. 42 LISTED ON SCHEDULE A, et al., 11 Defendants.
12 13 Plaintiff Betty’s Best, Inc., filed an ex parte motion to enjoin the infringement of Plaintiff’s 14 intellectual property by 592 Facebook Advertisers. (Dkt. No. 16.)1 The Court granted Plaintiff 15 leave to subpoena Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta) for the identifying information of 592 Facebook 16 Advertisers. (Dkt. No. 40.) Before the Court is Certain Defendants’ motion to quash the 17 subpoena. (Dkt. No. 42.) Having carefully considered the briefing, and with the benefit of oral 18 argument on January 4, 2024, the Court DENIES the motion. Certain Defendants fail to 19 demonstrate quashal or modification of Plaintiff’s Rule 45 subpoena is required or permissible 20 because Certain Defendants’ identifying information is neither privileged nor commercial 21 information…