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Nature of Suit Code: 410
Nature of Suit: Antitrust
Cause of Action: 15:1 Antitrust Litigation

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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

In re DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS 

MEMORY (DRAM) ANTITRUST

LITIGATION,

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This Document Relates to:

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ET AL., Master File No. M-02-01486 PJH (JCS)

MDL No. 1486

Plaintiffs,

Case No. C-06-04333 PJH (JCS)

v.

INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG, ET AL., ORDER FOLLOWING APRIL 25, 2008 

DISCOVERY CONFERENCE

Defendants.

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STATE OF NEW YORK, Case No. C-06-06436 PJH (JCS)

Plaintiff,

v.

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC., ET AL.,

Defendants.

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The Court held a further discovery conference on April 25, 2008. The following counsel

appeared: Emilio Varanini (State of California), Timothy Nord (State of Illinois), Lizabeth Leeds

(State of Florida), Eli Friedman (State of Florida), Nancy Bonnell (State of Arizona), Richard

Schwartz (State of New York), Steven Bergman (Hynix), Joshua Hess (Micron), Gabriel Rubin

(Elpida), Eva Chang (NEC Electronics Amercia), Jane Chang (Hynix), David Brownstein (Mosel),

and Na’ll Benjamin (Nanya).

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For the reasons stated on the record and good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED

as follows:

1. In response to Interrogatory Nos. 20 and 21 propounded by Defendants, Plaintiff

States with central purchasing agencies shall identify (in addition to the other

information disclosed), with respect to those central purchasing agencies, specific

steps taken to preserve documents relevant to this case, and the dates on which those

steps were taken. In responding to Interrogatory Nos. 20 and 21, Plaintiffs shall

conduct a diligent investigation, and verifications attesting to this diligence shall be

provided. Those states with central purchasing agencies that have identified written

document retention policies during the relevant period shall provide copies of those

document retention policies to Defendants.

2. With respect to discovery by Defendants on New York direct assigned claims, the

parties shall jointly propose a discovery plan in advance of the next discovery

conference in this case.

3. The parties have raised an issue with respect to the number of documents collected

from the entities sampled during Plaintiffs’ damages survey. In the future, Plaintiffs

shall collect from the surveyed entities all of the documents that the surveyed entities

collect and use to fill out the questionnaires in Plaintiffs’ damages survey. 

Approximately 100 entities have already filled out Phase 2 of the survey, and as a

result have already collected and logged information from various documents. With

respect to these entities, Plaintiff States shall inquire as to whether those entities have

segregated, and still retain in a segregated location, the documents so collected. If

they have been segregated and retained, Plaintiff States shall request production of all

of the collected documents. If they have not been so segregated and retained,

Plaintiff States shall inquire as to the feasibility of re-collecting all of the documents

used to fill out Phase 2 of the survey and report to the Court at the next discovery

conference.

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4. A further discovery conference is scheduled for June 6, 2008. A joint updated

discovery statement shall be filed by May 30, 2008, at 1:30 p.m.

 IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 30, 2008 

JOSEPH C. SPERO

United States Magistrate Judge

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