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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Product Liability

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28 1 The holding of this court is limited to the facts and the particular circumstances

underlying the present motion.

ORDER, page 1

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

MICHAEL ARBSLAND,

Plaintiff,

v.

SOUTHWEST SIGNS, THE HOME

DEPOT, INC.,

Defendants. __________________________________

SOUTHWEST SIGNS, LLC,

Cross-Complainant,

v.

THE HOME DEPOT, SIGNS HAWAII,

SIGN ART, L. MORIGUCHI, INC.

Cross-Defendants __________________________________

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Case No.: C-06-4191 PVT

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

COMPEL COMPLIANCE WITH

SUBPOENAS

On February 2, 2008, Cross-Defendant Signs Hawaii, filed a motion to compel

compliance with subpoenas issued pursuant to Rule 45 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.1

Signs Hawaii seeks to compel the Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and

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ORDER, page 2

Hawaii Employers Mutual Insurance Company to produce various records. Both subpoenas

were issued by the Northern District of California and purport to require production in Honolulu,

Hawaii. (Motion Exh. A.) Thus, the subpoenas at issue issued from this district but seek

production in another district. 

Rule 45 provides: “A subpoena must issue as follows . . . for production, inspection,

copying, testing, or sampling, if separate from a subpoena commanding a person's attendance,

from the court for the district where the production or inspection is to be made.” Rule

45(a)(2)(C) (emphasis added). By its terms, Rule 45 only provides for production in the district

from which the subpoena issued. Because Signs Hawaii seeks to compel production in another

district, the subpoenas are defective and compliance with them cannot be compelled. 

For the foregoing reasons, It Is hereby Ordered that Signs Hawaii’s motion to compel

compliance with subpoenas is denied and the April 3, 2007 hearing date is vacated.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 19, 2007

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PATRICIA V. TRUMBULL

United States Magistrate Judge

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