Banga

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9

NAVJEET SINGH BANGA,

10 Case No. 16-cv-04270-RS Plaintiff, 11 v. ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR 12 RECONSIDERATION CHRIS GUS KANIOS, et al., 13 Defendants. 14

15 Plaintiff Navjeet Banga has filed a motion for reconsideration of the order denying his 16 request to quash Defendants’ subpoena for his testimony at trial. Banga’s motion is procedurally 17 defective: “[n]o party may notice a motion for reconsideration without first obtaining leave of 18 Court to file the motion.” Civil L.R. 7-9(a).1 This error alone necessitates denying the motion. 19 Banga also fails to invoke any of the three bases for reconsideration under Rule 7-9(b). Instead, he 20 argues he should not be required to testify live2 and that in the event he should have to testify, 21 counsel should be appointed. These arguments are addressed below. 22 First, as explained at the pretrial conference, Banga may submit any prepared testimony 23 into the record without reading it…