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Nature of Suit Code: 850
Nature of Suit: Securities, Commodities, Exchange
Cause of Action: 15:78m(a) Securities Exchange Act

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

In re FINISAR CORPORATION 

SECURITIES LITIGATION

Case No.5:11-cv-01252-EJD (HRL)

ORDER RE DISCOVERY DISPUTE 

JOINT REPORT NO. 1

Re: Dkt. No. 138

This is a putative securities class action. In Discovery Dispute Joint Report #1 the plaintiff 

asks the court to order the deposition of Finisar’s Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(b)(6) witness to go forward on 

November 8th, the date upon which it is noticed. The deposition notice describes nine Topics for 

examination. Finisar urges a postponement until it has completed an additional document 

production requested by plaintiff.

Fact discovery is open until April 20, 2018, but plaintiffs say they need to get going now, 

and all nine Topics track Finisar’s initial disclosures. Finisar says it is too soon because its 

ongoing rolling document production may affect the 30(b)(6) witness’ testimony. Finisar does not 

suggest when it will complete the rolling production.

Neither side’s arguments are overwhelmingly persuasive, but the court is willing to strike 

what seems to be a fair compromise. The deposition shall go forward on November 8th, but only 

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on Topic 1 and the first half (first sentence) of Topic 2. This should give the plaintiff the baseline 

it says it needs to understand what has been produced and to map out further discovery. The 

deposition can be resumed after completion of Finisar’s rolling production, but the court expects 

that production will be completed sooner rather than later.

SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 2, 2017

HOWARD R. LLOYD

United States Magistrate Judge

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