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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:451 Employment Discrimination

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

GREGORY HANDLOSER, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

HCL AMERICA, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 19-cv-01242-LHK (VKD)

ORDER RE STATUS OF HCL'S 

PRODUCTION OF ESI

Further to the Court’s telephone conference with the parties on April 22, 2020, the parties 

must take the following additional actions:

1. Plaintiffs must consider some means to prioritize the identification and production 

of ESI with respect to documents that are critical to the issues plaintiffs expect to address in their 

motion for class certification. By April 27, 2020, plaintiffs will provide to HCL suggestions for 

prioritizing HCL’s review and production, such as by custodian, by document type, by search 

term, and/or by any other means. The Court expects plaintiffs to make specific proposals and 

expects the parties to discuss those proposals.

2. HCL must consider implementation of a review methodology that would permit it 

to screen a custodian’s ESI for privileged documents (by means of search terms or other 

automated techniques) and to then produce the remainder of that custodian’s ESI based solely on 

the application of agreed search terms. HCL must consider whether such review may be 

implemented for some or all custodians, and HCL’s counsel must specifically discuss 

implementation of such review methodology with the client representative(s) of HCL responsible 

for making decisions about this litigation. 

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3. HCL must assess for each of the remaining 11 custodians identified pursuant to 

para. 2(a) of the Court’s January 7, 2020 order (Dkt. No. 64), the volume of ESI (e.g. number of 

documents) that will need to be reviewed for each such custodian after application of the agreed 

search terms. HCL shall report on this assessment to the Court and to plaintiffs’ counsel as soon 

as the information is available, but no later than May 6, 2020.

4. HCL shall produce the approximately 8,000 ESI documents from two custodians, 

to which it refers in its April 20, 2020 proposal (Dkt. No. 97), no later than April 30, 2020. 

The Court will hold another telephone conference to discuss these matters on May 8, 2020

at 2:30 p.m. Please use the following information to join the call:

Dial in: (877) 848-7030

Passcode: 6982082

Lead counsel for each of the parties must participate in the call. HCL must also have the 

following participants on the call: (a) the attorney and paralegal most knowledgeable about 

HCL’s document collection, review, and production (if not lead counsel), and (b) a representative 

of HCL’s e-discovery vendor who can answer specific questions about the collection, processing, 

and production of HCL’s ESI.

The conference will not be recorded or transcribed by a court reporter.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 22, 2020

VIRGINIA K. DEMARCHI

United States Magistrate Judge

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