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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RONALD F. GREENSPAN,

Plaintiff,

 v.

TOWER C. SNOW, JR.,

Defendant.

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No. C 05-02816 SI

ORDER RE: DOCUMENT RETENTION

Now before the Court is defendant’s request for a protective order to prevent plaintiff, trustee for the

bankruptcy estate ofBrobeck, Phleger& Harrison, LLP, fromdestroying approximately 40,000 administrative

files belonging to the Brobeck estate. In a letter brief dated October 4, 2005 (Docket #3), defendant

represents that the trustee has two motions pending in bankruptcy court that would allow it to destroy the

documents at issue. The first such motion seeks permission to enter into settlement agreements with two

document storage facilities that currently house the administrative files. These settlement agreements would

expressly provide that the document storage facilities would be “under no obligation to continue to store or

maintain [Brobeck’s administrative] files and [would be] free to destroy or dispose of them.” Def. Br. at 1.

The second motion seeks to abandon the estate’s interest in the administrative files. Both of the trustee’s

motions are currently scheduled to be heard on October 13, 2005. 

The trustee has not yet responded to defendant’s letter brief. In order to ensure that the documents

at issue are preserved until both parties have the opportunity to be heard on the issue, the Court hereby

ORDERS plaintiff to maintain the documents until further order of this Court.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 7, 2005

 

SUSAN ILLSTON

United States District Judge

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