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Nature of Suit Code: 370
Nature of Suit: Other Fraud
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity Action

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ANDREA NATHAN, on behalf of herself 

and all others similarly situated,

Plaintiff,

v.

VITAMIN SHOPPE, INC.,

Defendant.

Case No.: 3:17-cv-01590-BEN-AHG

ORDER:

(1) SETTING DEADLINE FOR 

CERTAIN PRODUCTION;

(2) VACATING CLASS 

CERTIFICATION DISCOVERY 

DEADLINE; and

(3) VACATING DEADLINE TO FILE 

MOTIONS RELATED TO CLASS 

CERTIFICATION DISCOVERY 

DISPUTES

The Court held a Telephonic Discovery Status Conference in this matter on 

January 7, 2020 regarding the parties’ ongoing discovery dispute. In essence, the dispute 

concerns whether Defendant is entitled to conduct an additional relevancy review and 

withhold from Plaintiff certain documents as irrelevant notwithstanding that the parties’ 

agreed-upon search terms hit on said documents. The Court has set a series of status 

conferences to monitor the parties’ meet-and-conferral process and to offer guidance 

regarding the dispute. To that end, the Court previously instructed Defendant to produce 

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to Plaintiff samples of those documents it has deemed non-responsive as part of its 

additional relevancy review. Defendant complied by identifying seven categories of 

documents it considers to be non-responsive and providing sample documents from each 

category to Plaintiff. Prior to the call, the parties met and conferred and agreed without 

the Court’s assistance regarding the scope of production for four of those categories.

After conferring with the parties, the Court ORDERS as follows:

1. With respect to the remaining three categories in dispute (data and marketing 

information on unrelated products, marketing emails from third parties regarding 

unrelated products, and conversations unrelated to the product at issue), Defendant will 

produce all non-privileged documents in those categories that refer to or reflect weight 

management or appetite control by January 21, 2020.

2. As discussed during the conference, Defendant’s production of emails responsive 

to Plaintiff’s discovery requests is smaller than Plaintiff expected. Therefore, Defendant 

shall provide to Plaintiff a list of custodians whose emails have been searched for 

responsive documents by January 21, 2020.

3. In light of the parties’ progress on class certification discovery, the Court 

VACATES the class discovery cutoff deadline of January 31, 2020, as well as the 

deadline of February 28, 2020 to file motions related to class discovery disputes, both of 

which were set in the Court’s July 16, 2019 Scheduling Order. See ECF No. 24 ¶ 2. 

Plaintiff’s deadline to file a motion for class certification will remain March 27, 2020.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 8, 2020

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