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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-(Citizenship)

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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

JASON ZAJONC,

Plaintiff,

v.

MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC, et al.,

Defendants.

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No. C-14-5563 EMC

ORDER RE JOINT DISCOVERY

LETTER

(Docket No. 71)

Currently pending before the Court is the parties’ joint letter of May 29, 2015. The letter

addresses a discovery dispute between the parties. This order memorializes the ruling the Court

made at the case management conference of June 4, 2015. It also provides additional analysis, as

necessary. 

Because the information sought by Plaintiff is relevant, see, e.g., Khalilpour v. Cellco P’ship,

No. C 09-02712 CW (MEJ) 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43885, at *6-7 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 1, 2010)

(“find[ing] that production of each putative class member’s residential telephone number, along with

their name and address, is relevant to and reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of evidence

relevant to class certification issues[;] [w]ith the names, addresses and telephone numbers of the

putative class members, Plaintiff can contact these individuals to ascertain whether common

questions of law exist, and evaluate the typicality of claims between the Plaintiff and other

claimants”), Defendants shall submit a complete class list. Defendants may incorporate by reference

the DeVries class list, but, if they have any updated contact information, they shall provide that

information. In addition, Defendants are obligated to provide a class list for those putative class

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members who “post-date” the DeVries class list. Because the DeVries class list appears to be

missing only 173 putative class members, a sampling approach to relieve the burden on Defendants

is not necessary. Also, while the Court is cognizant of putative class members’ privacy interests,

those interests can be accommodated through a protective order, particularly as the information

being requested is not a serious invasion of privacy. See, e.g., id. at *9 (noting that “the potential

putative class members in this controversy have a legally protected interest in the privacy of their

phone numbers and a reasonable expectation of privacy” but “find[ing] that the information sought

by Plaintiff is not particularly sensitive”).

The only issue remaining is the timeline by which Defendants shall produce the requested

information. Defendants shall provide the information requested by June 18, 2015.

This order disposes of Docket No. 71.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 4, 2015

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EDWARD M. CHEN

United States District Judge

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