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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 

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For the Northern District of California 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

IN RE: CATHODE RAY TUBE (CRT)

ANTITRUST LITIGATION 

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MDL No. 1917 

Case No. C-07-5944-SC 

ORDER REFERRING SHARP 

CORPORATION'S EX PARTE 

APPLICATION TO SPECIAL 

MASTER

This Order Relates To: 

12-MC-80151-SC 

Sharp Corporation ("Sharp") is a putative member of the Direct 

Purchaser Plaintiff ("DPP") class in the instant case ("MDL"), and 

also is a plaintiff in substantially similar litigation before the 

courts of Korea. On June 27, 2012, Sharp filed an ex parte 

application pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782. That statute provides, 

in pertinent part, that "[t]he district court of the district in 

which a person resides or is found may order him to . . . produce a 

document or other thing for use in a proceeding in a foreign or 

international tribunal . . . ." 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a). Sharp seeks 

permission to issue a subpoena against interim lead counsel for the 

DPP class in the MDL, attorneys R. Alexander Saveri and/or Guido 

Saveri of the law firm Saveri & Saveri ("Proposed Custodians"). 

Sharp intends to obtain discovery already taken by the DPPs, which 

Sharp then could use in the Korean litigation. 

The Clerk of the Court classified Sharp's ex parte application 

as a separate, miscellaneous case and assigned it case number 12-

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United 

States District 

Court

For the Northern District of California 

MC-80151 ("Misc. Case"). On July 5, 2012, the undersigned related 

the miscellaneous case to the MDL. MDL Dkt. No. 1250. Sharp 

provided courtesy copies of the ex parte application to the 

Proposed Custodians, and the Proposed Custodians have objected to 

it. MDL Dkt. No. 1251 ("PC Obj'n"). A group of defendants in the 

MDL ("CRT Defendants") also oppose Sharp's ex parte application.1

 

Misc. Case Dkt. No. 8 ("CRT Defs.' Obj'n"). Sharp filed a reply to 

the Proposed Custodians' Objection, MDL Dkt. No. 1253 ("Reply to 

PC"), and to the CRT Defendants' Objection, Misc. Case Dkt. No. 9 

("Reply to CRT Defs."). 

Now that the Miscellaneous Case is related to the MDL, Sharp's 

request falls squarely within the purview of the Special Master. 

See MDL Dkt. No. 302 ¶ 8 (scope of Special Master's duties includes 

"specially-assigned discovery motions and disputes").2 Thus, the 

Court hereby REFERS Sharp's request to the Special Master. The 

Special Master shall hear Sharp's § 1782 request, as well as any 

objections, and issue a report and recommendation to the Court on a 

schedule determined by the Special Master. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: July 10, 2012 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

 

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 The list of parties comprising the CRT Defendant group, found at 

pages 2 through 6 of their Objection, is incorporated herein. 

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 Sharp shall make any further filings in the docket for the MDL. 

The Court also directs Sharp's attention to the following Orders in 

the MDL: (1) Pretrial Order # 1, (2) the Order Appointing the 

Special Master, and (3) the standing Protective Order. MDL Dkt. 

Nos. 230, 302, 306 (respectively). 

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