Federal Insurance Company v. Tungsten Heavy Powder & Parts, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 FEDERAL INSURANCE Case No.: 21cv1197-W-MDD

COMPANY,

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S

Plaintiff, MOTION TO COMPEL GENERAL v. DYNAMICS’ COMPLIANCE WITH

SUBPOENA

TUNGSTEN HEAVY POWDER &

PARTS, INC. AND TUNGSTEN

PARTS WYOMING, INC., [ECF No. 32] Defendants.

I. PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

20 This dispute concerns a Rule 45 subpoena for deposition testimony that Plaintiff served to one of Defendants’ former customers, a nonparty, General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (“GD-OTS”). On June 3, 2022, Plaintiff Federal Insurance Company’s (“FIC”) filed a Motion to Compel GD- OTS to produce the person most qualified to provide deposition testimony in connection with a subpoena duces tecum, and a request for an order to show at a deposition on May 12, 2022. (ECF No. 32 at 6, 15-16). The subpoena duces tecum is not at issue, as GD-OTS complied with that part of the amended subpoena by providing 11,000 pages of…