Persian Gulf Inc. v. BP West Coast Products LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA PERSIAN GULF, INC., Case No.: 15-cv-1749-TWR-AGS Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IN PART v. DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR

SANCTIONS (ECF 502)

BP WEST COAST PRODUCTS, INC., et 13 al., Defendants. Richard BARTLETT, et al., individually Case No.: 18-cv-1374-TWR-AGS and on behalf of all others similarly (consolidated with No. 18-cv-01377- situated, DMS-AGS) 17 Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART

18 v. DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SANCTIONS (ECF 356)

BP WEST COAST PRODUCTS, INC.,

et al.,

Defendants. 21 Plaintiffs have long claimed that defendants conspired to fix gasoline prices. But neither plaintiffs’ complaints nor their discovery responses ever suggested that defendants conspired to fix prices for diesel fuel. The $4.6 billion-dollar allegation of diesel-fuel price- fixing first arose, instead, in plaintiffs’ expert…