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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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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GAIL PAYNE, ET AL.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF 

BASEBALL, ET AL.,

Defendants.

Case No. 15-cv-03229-YGR 

ORDER REQUIRING SUPPLEMENTAL 

BRIEFING

Re: Dkt. No. 52

Defendants have moved to dismiss on a number of grounds, including on the ground that 

plaintiffs lack standing to assert their claims or obtain the relief sought. (Dkt. No. 52.) The 

motion was heard on March 22, 2016. The Court hereby ORDERS each side to submit a 

supplemental brief of no more than five (5) pages by April 1, 2016, addressing whether the Court 

should allow limited jurisdictional discovery. The contemplated jurisdictional discovery would be 

narrowly tailored to address solely the issue of standing; in particular, the probability that a given 

individual, seated in plaintiffs’ specific sections at the two California stadiums in question, will be 

hit by a stray ball or bat in the course of a given game or season. See Am. W. Airlines, Inc. v. GPA 

Grp., Ltd., 877 F.2d 793, 801 (9th Cir. 1989); Gordon v. City of Moreno Valley, 687 F. Supp. 2d 

930, 940 (C.D. Cal. 2009).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 25, 2016

______________________________________

YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

Case 4:15-cv-03229-YGR Document 63 Filed 03/25/16 Page 1 of 1