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Nature of Suit Code: 380
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Property Damage
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Property Damage

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS 

COMPANY,

Plaintiff, No. C-07-03422 EDL

v. ORDER GRANTING UNITED’S 

MOTION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE

RELIEF

UNITED AIR LINES,

Defendant.

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This action arises from an October 7, 2003 ground collision between two airplanes. All Nippon

Airways (“ANA”) alleges that United Airline’s (“UAL”) negligence caused the collision. UAL filed

an amended counter-complaint on October 26, 2007, which alleges negligence against ANA. It also

alleges breach of contract of a Standard Ground Handling Agreement between ANA and UAL. ANA

has moved to compel production of certain documents responsive to its discovery requests. UAL has

moved to strike that motion for its failure to comply with Civil L.R. 37-2, which requires a party to state

the text of each discovery request as well as the response to that request in a motion to compel. UAL

also contends that ANA did not raise many of its requests in the meet and confer process. 

It is hereby ORDERED that UAL’s motion to strike is GRANTED. However, ANA may re-file

its motion to compel in compliance with all applicable rules after its counsel further meets and confers

with UAL’s counsel about the issues in ANA’s motion. While it appears from ANA’s counsel’s

declarations that the parties met and conferred, the Court is concerned that counsel for both parties are

not engaging in meaningful attempts to resolve their discovery disputes in this case without Court

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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intervention. Counsel shall meet and confer through good faith, detailed, face-to-face or telephonic

conversations about all of the issues raised in ANA’s motion. If, after doing so, the parties have

unresolved issues that require Court intervention, which the Court hopes is not the case, the Court will

resolve those issues only. 

As to categories of documents that ANA maintains it has produced in their entirety, IT IS

FURTHER ORDERED that UAL shall provide ANA with a declaration by February 20, 2008 that it

has produced all responsive documents to any given request after a reasonable search, if it has not

already done so. The declaration shall also clearly state what requested documents, if any, do not now

exist, and what categories of documents if any it is withholding and pursuant to what objections. 

Dated: February 13, 2008

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ELIZABETH D. LAPORTE

United States Magistrate Judge

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